Family Business Research in the Last Decade. A Bibliometric Review

Gloria Aparicio; Encarnación Ramos; Jose-Carlos Casillas; Txomin Iturralde

doi:10.24310/ejfbejfb.v11i1.12503

Authors

Gloria Aparicio University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6878-3353
Encarnación Ramos University of Seville, Spain Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3666-4215
Jose-Carlos Casillas University of Seville, Spain Spain
Txomin Iturralde University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8406-6589

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/ejfbejfb.v11i1.12503

Keywords:

Family firms, Bibliometric Review, Future Research, Data collection

Abstract

This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of in family firms research, focusing on aspects that prior literature review studies did not fully understand or evaluate. It is based on the bibliometric evaluation of 3.368 scientific articles published from 2010 to 2020 in family firms (FF) as the title of the subject, keywords, and abstract. The authors discuss the results from the perspective of performance indicators and co-authorship visualization, giving a holistic bibliometric overview of the research topic. The field has attracted researchers and has led to the development of a wide body of literature. This study provides a synthesis and organization of existing knowledge on FF research.

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