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Kimberly A. Eddleston

Kimberly A. Eddleston

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Business and Management

D-Index
56
Citations
17983
World Ranking
687
National Ranking
303

Overview

Kimberly A. Eddleston is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States and specializes in research within the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their scholarly output includes significant contributions to organizational behavior, innovation management, accounting, sociology, political science, and strategic management. The main topics addressed in their work focus primarily on family business performance and succession, entrepreneurship studies and influences, corporate finance and governance, as well as international business and foreign direct investment.

Eddleston's research has resulted in numerous publications across prominent academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include the Academy of Management Proceedings, Journal of Family Business Strategy, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Management Studies, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Their recent papers explore various aspects of family firms, entrepreneurship, and organizational behavior. Notable recent works include:

  • "Entrepreneurial by Design: How Organizational Design Affects Family and Non-family Firms' Opportunity Exploitation" (2020, Journal of Management Studies)
  • "Catalyzing change: Innovation in women's entrepreneurship" (2022, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal)
  • "Kinship and Gender in Family Firms: New Insights Into Employees' Organizational Citizenship Behavior" (2021, Family Business Review)
  • "Parenting the Successor: It Starts at Home and Leaves an Enduring Impact on the Family Business" (2022, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice)
  • "Employee Incentives and Family Firm Innovation: A Configurational Approach" (2023, Journal of Management)

Eddleston frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most common co-authors include Francesco Chirico, Franz W. Kellermanns, Alfredo De Massis, Massimo Baù, and Philipp Sieger.

The main fields of study they contribute to are:

  • Business, Management and Accounting

With subfields covering:

  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Management of Technology and Innovation
  • Accounting
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Strategy and Management

The primary topics in their research output include:

  • Family Business Performance and Succession
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • International Business and FDI
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital
  • Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting

Best Publications

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

    Kimberly A. Eddleston;Franz W. Kellermanns

  • 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

  • Moderators of the Relationship Between Work-Family Conflict and Career Satisfaction

    Luis L. Martins;Kimberly A. Eddleston;John F. "Jack" Veiga

  • 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

  • Why Networks Enhance the Progress of New Venture Creation: The Influence of Social Capital and Cognition

    Donna Marie De Carolis;Barrie E. Litzky;Kimberly A. Eddleston

  • Linking family-to-business enrichment and support to entrepreneurial success: Do female and male entrepreneurs experience different outcomes? ☆

    Gary N. Powell;Kimberly A. Eddleston

  • Innovativeness in family firms: a family influence perspective

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

  • The Good, the Bad, and the Misguided: How Managers Inadvertently Encourage Deviant Behaviors

    Barrie E. Litzky;Kimberly A. Eddleston;Deborah L. Kidder

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

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

  • Nurturing Entrepreneurs' Work–Family Balance: A Gendered Perspective

    Kimberly A. Eddleston;Gary N. Powell

  • The role of gender identity in explaining sex differences in business owners' career satisfier preferences

    Kimberly A. Eddleston;Gary N. Powell

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

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

  • Building a family firm image: How family firms capitalize on their family ties

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

  • A family perspective on when conflict benefits family firm performance

    Franz W. Kellermanns;Kimberly A. Eddleston

  • Do you see what I see? Signaling effects of gender and firm characteristics on financing entrepreneurial ventures

    Kimberly A. Eddleston;Jamie J. Ladge;Cheryl Mitteness;Lakshmi Balachandra

  • Don’t Pitch Like a Girl!: How Gender Stereotypes Influence Investor Decisions

    Lakshmi Balachandra;Tony Briggs;Kim Eddleston;Candida Brush

  • A Resource-Based View of Social Entrepreneurship: How Stewardship Culture Benefits Scale of Social Impact

    Sophie Bacq;Kimberly A. Eddleston

  • Home-region focus and performance of family firms: The role of family vs non-family leaders

    Elitsa R Banalieva;Kimberly A Eddleston

Frequent Co-Authors

Franz W. Kellermanns
Franz W. Kellermanns University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Gary N. Powell
Gary N. Powell University of Connecticut
Thomas Zellweger
Thomas Zellweger University of St. Gallen
John F. Veiga
John F. Veiga University of Connecticut
Tim Barnett
Tim Barnett Mississippi State University
Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London
Alain Verbeke
Alain Verbeke University of Calgary
Esra Memili
Esra Memili University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Alfredo Vittorio De Massis
Alfredo Vittorio De Massis Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Jay Prakash Mulki
Jay Prakash Mulki Northeastern University

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