Julia Suess-Reyes

Vienna University of Economics and Business | WU · Institute for Family Business

Purpose Family firms (FF) reveal a considerable heterogeneity in their innovation behavior. Due to the successful long-term preservation of their innovation capacity via special resources and routines, multi-generational FF are of special interest in terms of learning from good practices. Against this background, the purpose of this paper is to asc...

This article addresses the business family, which so far has received only limited scholarly attention. The business family as the group of family members regularly discussing and deciding business matters is key for the functioning of both the business and the family. Specifically, we propose and empirically test the concept of the enterpriseness...

Co-producing scientific research with those who are affected by it is an emerging phenomenon in contemporary science. This article summarizes and reflects on both the process and outcome of a novel experiment to co-develop scientific research proposals in the field of Open Innovation in Science (OIS), wherein scholars engaged in the study of open a...

Scholars across disciplines increasingly hear calls for more open and collaborative approaches to scientific research. The concept of Open Innovation in Science (OIS) provides a framework that integrates dispersed research efforts aiming to understand the antecedents, contingencies, and consequences of applying open and collaborative research pract...

Against the backdrop of the current Covid-19 pandemic and the related world economic crisis, we reflect on the role of the business family as a pivotal resource in family firm crisis management. We discuss how business families respond to the pandemic outbreak and how some accomplish to turn challenges into opportunities and manage to emerge from t...

Openness and collaboration in scientific research are attracting increasing attention from scholars and practitioners alike. However, a common understanding of these phenomena is hindered by disciplinary boundaries and disconnected research streams. We link dispersed knowledge on Open Innovation, Open Science, and related concepts such as Responsib...

Familienunternehmen sind eine tragende Säule der deutschen Wirtschaft. Ihr Erfolg steht und fällt mit einer Führung, die die Besonderheiten von Familie und Unternehmen berücksichtigt, die Vertrauen in das Management schafft und die Einigkeit der Inhaber fördert. Die 3. Auflage des erfolgreichen Best Practice-Ratgebers unterstützt Sie dabei, die unt...

This chapter describes a research agenda for business families. The family has received little attention in family business research. Business families are faced with demands from family and business, which need to be managed in a way that neither the family nor the business is discriminated in the long run. Business families develop “enterprisenes...

Die Innovationskraft von Familienunternehmen als tragende Säule unserer Wirtschaft ist ein wesentlicher Faktor für den Erfolg und das langfristige Überleben dieses Unternehmenstyps. So unterschiedlich dieser Typ von Unternehmen ist, so unterschiedlich ist auch sein Innovationsverhalten in Bezug auf die Innovationsart, den Innovationsgrad, die Gesta...

Die Unternehmerfamilie ist eine wichtige Ressource für das Familienunternehmen. Sie kann entweder einen Wettbewerbsvorteil bringen oder, im kritischen Fall, auch zur Beeinträchtigung bis hin zur Zerstörung des Familienunternehmens führen. Gerade in der Nachfolgephase kann die Funktionsweise der Unternehmerfamilie gravierende Auswirkungen auf den Um...

The development of a transgenerational orientation is one of the most significant challenges that family businesses face and only a small number actually survive across generations. While prior research has focused on the business unit to provide us with a solid understanding of how corporate governance affects business performance and continuity,...

Purpose – One of the central requirements of research is that the knowledge acquired should not only be academically rigorous, but also socially useful. If an article fails to address practical relevance, the audience will question its value and respond with “so what?”. Due to recent criticism regarding the practical relevance of innovation researc...

Family farms are exposed to severe economic, political, social and ecological changes. To enable intra-family succession and to safeguard the long-term survival of the farm, farming families are therefore increasingly forced to pursue market-driven, innovative and sustainable strategies. A multitude of different research areas has dedicated its res...

Socioemotional wealth (SEW) is a key concept in family business research. The proposed FIBER scale as a direct and multidimensional measure of SEW is therefore a significant research achievement. We refined the scale by validating and thereby shortening it, using a sample of 216 family-owned and -managed firms with up to 500 employees in the German...

This article develops a familiness scale measuring the family influence on the business via decision premises that express familiness. In three studies, we examine familiness with qualitative and quantitative approaches based on new systems theory. Narrative interviews are employed to generate items. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses led...

In this paper we build on the important work of Berrone et al. (2012) who proposed a long-needed direct measurement scale for socioemotional wealth (SEW) in family firms. We take the logical next step by applying standard scale validation procedures for this highly cited but yet not tested SEW scale. We describe the results of a first step in valid...

A growing number of articles emphasise the importance of establishing an effective system of family governance, and a synthesis of the existing literature on family governance mechanisms (henceforth FGM) seems timely and relevant. Therefore, by focusing on three FGM (family meetings, family councils and family constitutions), this systematic litera...

Family business researchers have devoted a great deal of attention to the topic of family business governance but have rather disregarded the fact that the family needs to be governed as well. The purpose of this article is to shed light on family governance by reviewing literature on family governance institutions, practices and their effects. Fam...