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Business and Management
USA
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
95
Citations
48303
World Ranking
66
National Ranking
33

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award

Overview

James J. Chrisman is affiliated with Mississippi State University in the United States. The primary focus of their research lies within the broad field of Business, Management, and Accounting, with a particular emphasis on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Accounting. Additional areas of study include Sociology and Political Science as well as Business and International Management.

The scientist's research extensively covers key topics such as Family Business Performance and Succession, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, and Corporate Finance and Governance. Other areas of interest include Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Innovation and Knowledge Management, and Marriage and Sexual Relationships.

James J. Chrisman has contributed scholarly work to several academic journals and proceedings. Frequent publication venues include Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Academy of Management Proceedings, Family Business Review, Small Business Economics, and the Journal of Small Business Management.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Family Firm Heterogeneity: A Definition, Common Themes, Scholarly Progress, and Directions Forward, 2021, Family Business Review
  • Narrow-Framing and Risk Preferences in Family and Non-Family Firms, 2020, Journal of Management Studies
  • Social network research in the family business literature: a review and integration, 2022, Small Business Economics
  • Strategic Persistence in Family Business, 2021, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
  • Family business research in Asia: review and future directions, 2021, Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Collaboration is an important aspect of their academic work. Frequent co-authors include Hanqing Fang, Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy, Esra Memili, Zhenyu Wu, and Joshua J. Daspit. This indicates active engagement in multidisciplinary and team-based research efforts.

Best Publications

  • Defining the Family Business by Behavior

    Jess H. Chua;James J. Chrisman;Pramodita Sharma

  • Toward a Reconciliation of the Definitional Issues in the Field of Corporate Entrepreneurship

    Pramodita Sharma;James J. Chrisman

  • Trends and Directions in the Development of a Strategic Management Theory of the Family Firm

    James J. Chrisman;Jess H. Chua;Pramodita Sharma

  • Strategic Management of the Family Business: Past Research and Future Challenges

    Pramodita Sharma;James J. Chrisman;Jess H. Chua

  • Toward a Theory of Community-Based Enterprise

    Ana María Peredo;James J. Chrisman

  • Comparing the Agency Costs of Family and Non‐Family Firms: Conceptual Issues and Exploratory Evidence

    James J. Chrisman;Jess H. Chua;Reginald A. Litz

  • Family Involvement, Family Influence, and Family‐Centered Non‐Economic Goals in Small Firms

    James J. Chrisman;Jess H. Chua;Allison W. Pearson;Tim Barnett

  • Variations in R&D Investments of Family and Nonfamily Firms: Behavioral Agency and Myopic Loss Aversion Perspectives

    James J. Chrisman;Pankaj C. Patel

  • 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

  • Factors Preventing Intra-Family Succession

    Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Jess H. Chua;James J. Chrisman

  • Sources of Heterogeneity in Family Firms: An Introduction

    Jess H. Chua;James J. Chrisman;Lloyd P. Steier;Sabine B. Rau

  • The Determinants of New Venture Performance: An Extended Model:

    James J. Chrisman;Alan Bauerschmidt;Charles W. Hofer

  • Succession Planning as Planned Behavior: Some Empirical Results

    Pramodita Sharma;James J. Chrisman;Jess H. Chua

  • Determinants of Initial Satisfaction with the Succession Process in Family Firms: A Conceptual Model

    Pramodita Sharma;James J. Chrisman;Amy L. Pablo;Jess H. Chua

  • Succession and Nonsuccession Concerns of Family Firms and Agency Relationship with Nonfamily Managers

    Jess H. Chua;James J. Chrisman;Pramodita Sharma

  • Important Attributes of Successors in Family Businesses: An Exploratory Study:

    James J. Chrisman;Jess H. Chua;Pramodita Sharma

  • A unified systems perspective of family firm performance: an extension and integration

    James J. Chrisman;James J. Chrisman;Jess H. Chua;Reginald Litz;Reginald Litz

  • Predictors of satisfaction with the succession process in family firms

    Pramodita Sharma;James J. Chrisman;James J. Chrisman;Jess H. Chua

  • 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

  • The Ability and Willingness Paradox in Family Firm Innovation

    James J. Chrisman;Jess H. Chua;Alfredo De Massis;Federico Frattini

Frequent Co-Authors

Jess H. Chua
Jess H. Chua University of Calgary
Pramodita Sharma
Pramodita Sharma University of Vermont
Franz W. Kellermanns
Franz W. Kellermanns University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Esra Memili
Esra Memili University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Alfredo Vittorio De Massis
Alfredo Vittorio De Massis Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Lloyd P. Steier
Lloyd P. Steier University of Alberta
Josip Kotlar
Josip Kotlar Polytechnic University of Milan
Thomas Zellweger
Thomas Zellweger University of St. Gallen
Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London
Tim Barnett
Tim Barnett Mississippi State University

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