Papers on “family business”
Research on “family business” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “family business” appeared in 1,226 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in management (772), finance (220) and economics (140).
- 146 of them were published in 2025, against 101 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Lancaster University (24), International Institute for Management Development (23) and Zhejiang University (23).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Family Business Strategy (57), Journal of Business Research (43) and Finance research letters (32).
- The most-cited of them is “Board Diversity and Corporate Social Responsibility: Empirical Evidence from France” (Journal of Business Ethics, 2020), with 639 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Management | 78 | 51 | 75 | 72 | 112 | 104 | 73 | 74 | 79 | 54 |
| Finance | 10 | 16 | 17 | 14 | 20 | 15 | 14 | 41 | 42 | 31 |
| Economics | 8 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 22 | 15 | 32 | 17 | 6 |
| Accounting | 1 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 3 | 8 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Marketing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Operations Research | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| AI | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 101 | 90 | 108 | 107 | 151 | 148 | 112 | 162 | 146 | 101 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Family Business Strategy | 57 |
| 2 | Journal of Business Research | 43 |
| 3 | Finance research letters | 32 |
| 4 | Small Business Economics | 30 |
| 5 | Review of Managerial Science | 27 |
| 6 | Journal of Business Ethics | 26 |
| 7 | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 26 |
| 8 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 21 |
| 9 | International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal | 19 |
| 10 | Journal of Family and Economic Issues | 13 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lancaster University | 24 |
| 2 | International Institute for Management Development | 23 |
| 3 | Zhejiang University | 23 |
| 4 | Jönköping University | 19 |
| 5 | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano | 18 |
| 6 | University of Bergamo | 13 |
| 7 | University of the Basque Country | 12 |
| 8 | Witten/Herdecke University | 12 |
| 9 | University of Chieti-Pescara | 10 |
| 10 | HEC Montréal | 9 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 167 |
| 2 | United States | 95 |
| 3 | Italy | 89 |
| 4 | Spain | 60 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 59 |
| 6 | Germany | 51 |
| 7 | Canada | 35 |
| 8 | France | 34 |
| 9 | Switzerland | 32 |
| 10 | India | 30 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | socioemotional wealth | 102 |
| 2 | corporate governance | 78 |
| 3 | family ownership | 61 |
| 4 | firm performance | 53 |
| 5 | Chinese listed companies | 43 |
| 6 | generational succession | 39 |
| 7 | family control | 35 |
| 8 | Chinese family firms | 29 |
| 9 | ownership structure | 28 |
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Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “family business”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/family-business
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