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Isabelle Le Breton-Miller

Isabelle Le Breton-Miller

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
42
Citations
19346
World Ranking
1442
National Ranking
62

Overview

Isabelle Le Breton-Miller is affiliated with HEC Montréal in Canada and specializes in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their academic contributions predominantly focus on the study of family businesses, entrepreneurship, and corporate governance.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Family Business Performance and Succession
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Ethics in Business and Education
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

Their work spans various subfields such as Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management, and Sociology and Political Science.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Le Breton-Miller include:

  • Family businesses under COVID-19: Inspiring models - Sometimes (2021), Journal of Family Business Strategy
  • Back to the future: The effect of returning family successions on firm performance (2021), Strategic Management Journal
  • Are Socially Responsible Firms Associated with Socially Responsible Citizens? A Study of Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic (2021), Journal of Business Ethics
  • Firing managers: The benefits of family ownership and costs of family management (2020), Journal of Family Business Strategy
  • Are family firms green? (2024), Small Business Economics

Le Breton-Miller frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Family Business Strategy
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Business Ethics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Strategic Management Journal

Collaborative work features multiple frequent co-authors, including:

  • Danny Miller
  • Zhenyang Tang
  • Xiaowei Xu
  • Mario Daniele Amore
  • Morten Bennedsen

Best Publications

  • Family Governance and Firm Performance: Agency, Stewardship, and Capabilities:

    Danny Miller;Isabelle Le Breton-Miller

  • Managing For The Long Run: Lessons In Competitive Advantage From Great Family Businesses

    Danny Miller;Isabelle Le Breton-Miller

  • Are family firms really superior performers

    Danny Miller;Isabelle Le Breton-Miller;Richard H. Lester;Albert A. Cannella

  • Toward an Integrative Model of Effective FOB Succession

    Isabelle Le Breton-Miller;Danny Miller;Lloyd P. Steier

  • Stewardship vs. Stagnation: An Empirical Comparison of Small Family and Non‐Family Businesses*

    Danny Miller;Danny Miller;Isabelle Le Breton-Miller;Barry Scholnick

  • Why Do Some Family Businesses Out‐Compete? Governance, Long‐Term Orientations, and Sustainable Capability

    Isabelle Le Breton-Miller;Danny Miller

  • Lost in time: intergenerational succession, change, and failure in family business

    Danny Miller;Danny Miller;Lloyd Steier;Isabelle Le Breton-Miller

  • Family and Lone Founder Ownership and Strategic Behaviour: Social Context, Identity, and Institutional Logics

    Danny Miller;Isabelle Le Breton-Miller;Richard H. Lester

  • Agency vs. Stewardship in Public Family Firms: A Social Embeddedness Reconciliation

    Isabelle Le Breton-Miller;Danny Miller

  • Deconstructing socioemotional wealth

    Danny Miller;Danny Miller;Isabelle Le Breton-Miller;Isabelle Le Breton-Miller

  • Stewardship or Agency? A Social Embeddedness Reconciliation of Conduct and Performance in Public Family Businesses

    Isabelle Le Breton-Miller;Danny Miller;Richard H. Lester

  • Family ownership and acquisition behavior in publicly-traded companies

    Danny Miller;Isabelle Le Breton-Miller;Richard H. Lester

  • Family Firm Governance, Strategic Conformity, and Performance: Institutional vs. Strategic Perspectives

    Danny Miller;Isabelle Le Breton-Miller;Richard H. Lester

  • Governance, Social Identity, and Entrepreneurial Orientation in Closely Held Public Companies

    Danny Miller;Isabelle Le Breton‐Miller

  • Filling the institutional void: The social behavior and performance of family vs non-family technology firms in emerging markets

    Danny Miller;Jangwoo Lee;Sooduck Chang;Isabelle Le Breton-Miller

  • Management Insights from Great and Struggling Family Businesses

    Danny Miller;Isabelle Le Breton-Miller

  • Socioemotional Wealth Across the Family Firm Life Cycle: : A Commentary on 'Family Business Survival and the Role of Boards'

    Isabelle Le Breton-Miller;Danny Miller

  • Challenge versus Advantage in Family Business

    Danny Miller;Isabelle Le Breton-Miller

  • Underdog Entrepreneurs: A Model of Challenge–Based Entrepreneurship:

    Danny Miller;Isabelle Le Breton-Miller

  • When do Non-Family CEOs Outperform in Family Firms? Agency and Behavioural Agency Perspectives

    Danny Miller;Isabelle Le Breton-Miller;Alessandro Minichilli;Guido Corbetta

  • Family and Lone Founder Ownership and Strategic Behaviour: Social Context, Identity,

    Institutional Logics;Danny Miller;Isabelle Le Breton-Miller;Richard H. Lester

Frequent Co-Authors

Lloyd P. Steier
Lloyd P. Steier University of Alberta
Alessandro Minichilli
Alessandro Minichilli Bocconi University
Jess H. Chua
Jess H. Chua University of Calgary
James J. Chrisman
James J. Chrisman Mississippi State University
Albert A. Cannella
Albert A. Cannella Texas A&M University
Michael Carney
Michael Carney Concordia University
Alfredo Vittorio De Massis
Alfredo Vittorio De Massis Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Josip Kotlar
Josip Kotlar Polytechnic University of Milan
Wim Voordeckers
Wim Voordeckers Hasselt University
Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London

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