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Overview

Jess H. Chua is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Social Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Accounting, Sociology and Political Science, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

The main topics addressed in Chua's research focus on Family Business Performance and Succession, Corporate Finance and Governance, Marriage and Sexual Relationships, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, and Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy.

Recent publication venues where Chua has contributed include:

  • Review of Corporate Finance
  • Journal of Small Business Management
  • Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Among notable recent papers are:

  • Asset Market Equilibrium and Family Firm Cost of Capital: Implications for Corporate Finance (2022, Review of Corporate Finance)
  • Adverse retention of family talent in intrafamily succession (2024, Journal of Small Business Management)
  • Misconceptions About the Theoretical Support for Family Firm Long-Term Orientation (2025, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice)

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • James J. Chrisman
  • Carlton Osakwe
  • Zhenyu Wu
  • Hao Wang
  • Saisai Wu

Best Publications

  • Defining the Family Business by Behavior

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Succession Planning as Planned Behavior: Some Empirical Results

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

  • The Administrative Costs of Corporate Bankruptcy: A Note

    James S. Ang;Jess H. Chua;John J. Mcconnell

  • 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 Ability and Willingness Paradox in Family Firm Innovation

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

  • An introduction to theories of family business

    James J. Chrisman;Jess H. Chua;Lloyd P. Steier

  • Sources and Consequences of Distinctive Familiness: An Introduction

    James J. Chrisman;Jess H. Chua;Lloyd Steier

  • Extending the Theoretical Horizons of Family Business Research

    Jess H. Chua;James J. Chrisman;Lloyd P. Steier

Frequent Co-Authors

James J. Chrisman
James J. Chrisman Mississippi State University
Pramodita Sharma
Pramodita Sharma University of Vermont
Lloyd P. Steier
Lloyd P. Steier University of Alberta
James S. Ang
James S. Ang Florida State University
Alfredo Vittorio De Massis
Alfredo Vittorio De Massis Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Franz W. Kellermanns
Franz W. Kellermanns University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Josip Kotlar
Josip Kotlar Polytechnic University of Milan
Thomas Zellweger
Thomas Zellweger University of St. Gallen
Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London
Esra Memili
Esra Memili University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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