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Overview

Franz W. Kellermanns is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a significant emphasis on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Additional subfields include Management of Technology and Innovation, Accounting, Strategy and Management, and Business and International Management.

The scientist's main topics of work are centered around Family Business Performance and Succession, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Corporate Finance and Governance, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Private Equity and Venture Capital, as well as Innovation and Knowledge Management and Innovation and Socioeconomic Development.

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Franz W. Kellermanns include:

  • Family support as social exchange in entrepreneurship: Its moderating impact on entrepreneurial stressors-well-being relationships (2020, Journal of Business Research)
  • Corporate Entrepreneurship and Family Business: Learning Across Domains (2020, Journal of Management Studies)
  • Venturing Motives and Venturing Types in Entrepreneurial Families: A Corporate Entrepreneurship Perspective (2021, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice)
  • The effect of socioemotional wealth on the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and family business performance (2020, BRQ Business Research Quarterly)
  • Strength in Stability: A Meta-Analysis of Family Firm Performance Moderated by Institutional Stability and Regime Type (2021, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Franz W. Kellermanns include:

  • Frederik J. Riar
  • Kimberly Eddleston
  • Nicole Gottschalck
  • Nastaran Simarasl
  • Andreas Hack

Their work is often published in venues such as the Academy of Management Proceedings, Journal of Business Research, Family Business Review, Journal of Family Business Strategy, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Best Publications

  • Destructive and productive family relationships: A stewardship theory perspective ☆

    Kimberly A. Eddleston;Franz W. Kellermanns

  • Family Control and Family Firm Valuation by Family CEOs: The Importance of Intentions for Transgenerational Control

    Thomas M. Zellweger;Franz W. Kellermanns;James J. Chrisman;Jess H. Chua

  • Exploring the concept of familiness: Introducing family firm identity

    Thomas M. Zellweger;Kimberly A. Eddleston;Franz W. Kellermanns;Franz W. Kellermanns

  • Feuding Families: When Conflict Does a Family Firm Good

    Franz W. Kellermanns;Kimberly A. Eddleston

  • An Exploratory Study of Family Member Characteristics and Involvement: Effects on Entrepreneurial Behavior in the Family Firm

    Franz W. Kellermanns;Kimberly A. Eddleston;Tim Barnett;Allison Pearson

  • Resource Configuration in Family Firms: Linking Resources, Strategic Planning and Technological Opportunities to Performance

    Kimberly A. Eddleston;Franz Willi Kellermanns;Ravi Sarathy

  • Corporate Entrepreneurship in Family Firms: A Family Perspective

    Franz W. Kellermanns;Kimberly A. Eddleston

  • Are family managers agents or stewards? An exploratory study in privately held family firms

    James J. Chrisman;James J. Chrisman;Jess H. Chua;Franz W. Kellermanns;Erick P.C. Chang

  • The Adolescence of Family Firm Research Taking Stock and Planning for the Future

    Eric R. Gedajlovic;Michael Carney;James J. Chrisman;James J. Chrisman;Franz W. Kellermanns;Franz W. Kellermanns

  • Intellectual Foundations of Current Research in Family Business: An Identification and Review of 25 Influential Articles

    James J. Chrisman;Franz W. Kellermanns;Kam C. Chan;Kartono Liano

  • A Model of Business School Students' Acceptance of a Web-Based Course Management System

    Luis L. Martins;Franz Willi Kellermanns

  • Innovativeness in family firms: a family influence perspective

    Franz W. Kellermanns;Franz W. Kellermanns;Kimberly A. Eddleston;Ravi Sarathy;Fran Murphy

  • Are We Family and Are We Treated as Family? Nonfamily Employees’ Perceptions of Justice in the Family Firm:

    Tim Barnett;Franz W. Kellermanns

  • Family Business Research in the New Millennium An Overview of the Who, the Where, the What, and the Why

    Bart J. Debicki;Curtis F. Matherne;Franz W. Kellermanns;James J. Chrisman

  • Viewing Family Firm Behavior and Governance Through the Lens of Agency and Stewardship Theories

    Kristen Madison;Daniel T. Holt;Franz W. Kellermanns;Franz W. Kellermanns;Annette L. Ranft

  • Extending the Socioemotional Wealth Perspective: A Look at the Dark Side

    Franz W. Kellermanns;Kimberly A. Eddleston;Thomas M. Zellweger

  • Development of a socioemotional wealth importance (SEWi) scale for family firm research

    Bart J. Debicki;Franz W. Kellermanns;Franz W. Kellermanns;James J. Chrisman;James J. Chrisman;Allison W. Pearson

  • Knowledge transfer between and within alliance partners: Private versus collective benefits of social capital

    Jorge Walter;Christoph Lechner;Franz W. Kellermanns

  • Exploring the Entrepreneurial Behavior of Family Firms: Does the Stewardship Perspective Explain Differences?:

    Kimberly A. Eddleston;Franz W. Kellermanns;Thomas M. Zellweger

  • Entrepreneurial Team Composition Characteristics and New Venture Performance: A Meta‐Analysis

    Linlin Jin;Kristen Madison;Nils D. Kraiczy;Franz W. Kellermanns

  • A Model of Business School Students' Acceptance of a Web-Based Course

    Luis L. Martins;Franz Willi Kellermanns

Frequent Co-Authors

Kimberly A. Eddleston
Kimberly A. Eddleston Northeastern University
James J. Chrisman
James J. Chrisman Mississippi State University
Thomas Zellweger
Thomas Zellweger University of St. Gallen
Steven W. Floyd
Steven W. Floyd University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jess H. Chua
Jess H. Chua University of Calgary
Tim Barnett
Tim Barnett Mississippi State University
Esra Memili
Esra Memili University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London
Frank Hoy
Frank Hoy Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Alfredo Vittorio De Massis
Alfredo Vittorio De Massis Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

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