Building the genealogy of family business internationalization: a bibliometric mixed-method approach
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Building the genealogy of family business internationalization: a bibliometric mixed‑method approach Marco Galvagno1 · Vincenzo Pisano1 Received: 25 July 2020 / Accepted: 8 October 2020 © Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary 2020
Abstract The paper aims to build the genealogy of the literature on Internationalization of Family Business (IFB) identifying the ‘fathers’ (the most important papers in the field), ‘ancestors’ (those on which the fathers have been built on), and ‘descendants’ (the most recent publications and topics) of the research field. Results originate from a complete database on which we used a bibliometric mixed-method approach by sequentially employing citation analysis, co-citation analysis, and bibliographic coupling. Our analysis enriches the academic debate on IFB with more understanding of the field’s knowledge structure (origins, theoretical roots, and developments), meanwhile proposing a sequential use of different bibliometric methods and providing a methodological contribution. Keywords Internationalization · Family firms · Genealogy · Bibliometrics · Citation analysis · Co-citation analysis · Bibliographic coupling Mathematics Subject Classification 91C20 JEL Classification F23 · L26 · M16
Introduction The internationalization of family business (IFB) has attracted considerable attention in recent years, and particularly in the last two decades (Arregle et al. 2017; Calabrò et al. 2016a; Kontinen and Ojala 2010; Pukall and Calabrò 2014). This is due to several reasons. First, foreign expansion may represent a unique opportunity for family firms to exploit the widespread public policies encouraging internationalization and to take advantage of the increasingly globalized markets. Second, globalization is pushing competition at international level, affecting firms’ managerial strategies. Third, most of the * Marco Galvagno [email protected] Vincenzo Pisano [email protected] 1
Department of Economics and Business, University of Catania, Corso Italia, 55, 95129 Catania, Italy
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firms all over the world are family firms; and this awareness has taken scholars of various fields to focus on such firm’s typology (Cesinger et al. 2014). Extant literature reviews have improved the understanding of the main topics addressed by scholars and identified important gaps. Kontinen and Ojala (2010) identified four broad topics: the internationalization process; managerial and strategic issues; factors influencing internationalization; and methodology. They stressed that research on IFB offers limited knowledge about the processes and strategies of internationalization suggesting the use of family business specific perspectives. Then, Pukall and Calabrò (2014) acknowledged four general research themes: family firms (FFs) heterogeneity; the internationalization process; the relational/network aspects; and the resource and capabilities view. They pointed out the inconsistency of findings related to the effects of family ownership on internationalization pro
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