The article written by Professor Sascha Kraus and Dr. Matthias Filser of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and two co-authors from the USA and China, “Mapping the field of family business research: past trends and future directions”, has been accepted for publication in SPRINGER’s International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal.
The article written by Professor Sascha Kraus and Dr. Matthias Filser of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and two co-authors from the USA and China, “Mapping the field of family business research: past trends and future directions”, has been accepted for publication in SPRINGER’s International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal.
With a Thomson Reuters Impact Factor of 5.053, SPRINGER’s International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal is ranked fourth best in the world in the “Business” and “Management” categories in the current Journal Citation Reports for 2012, and considered “A” quality in the Handelsblatt 2012 ranking conversion table.
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In their article, the authors analyse the status quo of current research into family businesses on the basis of what is probably one of the most comprehensive bibliometric citation analyses in entrepreneurship research worldwide. In order to do so, they analysed a total of 1,100 scientific articles with a total of almost 50,000 citations, grouping them in clusters according to content, and thus identifying the most important research trends in this field up to now, as well as recommendations for future research in the subject. The article can thus be recommended as a standard work for students and academics working in this field of research.
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Article: Xi, J./Kraus, S./Filser, M./Kellermanns, F.W. (2014): Mapping the Field of Family Business Research: Past Trends and Future Directions, in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal; online first. DOI:10.1007/s11365-013-0286-z.
About the authors from the University of Liechtenstein
Professor Dr. Dr. Sascha Kraus is associate professor and Head of the Competence Center for Entrepreneurship and Family Business at the University of Liechtenstein. He is also a permanent visiting professor in International Small Business Management at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He holds a doctorate in Social and Economic Sciences from the University of Klagenfurt, Austria and a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management from Helsinki University of Technology as well as a Habilitation degree (venia docendi) from Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland.
Dr. Matthias Filser is Executive Director of the Master’s degree programme in Entrepreneurship at the University of Liechtenstein and a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship. He holds a doctorate in Economics from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and was a research assistant at the Montpellier Business School in France and the University of Turku, Finland, before taking up his current position in Liechtenstein.