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2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
87
Citations
52601
World Ranking
107
National Ranking
54

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
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management

Overview

Luis R. Gomez-Mejia is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States and specializes in research within the field of Business, Management, and Accounting. Their work predominantly covers subfields such as Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their research topics include Family Business Performance and Succession, Corporate Finance and Governance, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy, Management and Organizational Studies, Gender Diversity and Inequality, and Corporate Taxation and Avoidance.

Recent publications include:

  • Impact of informal institutions on the prevalence, strategy, and performance of family firms: A meta-analysis (2020), Journal of International Business Studies
  • Family Business Restructuring: A Review and Research Agenda (2021), Journal of Management Studies
  • Family firms are indeed better places to work than non-family firms! Socioemotional wealth and employees' perceived organizational caring (2021), Journal of Family Business Strategy
  • Socioemotional wealth and family firm performance: A meta-analytic integration (2022), Journal of Family Business Strategy
  • Can family firms nurture socioemotional wealth in the aftermath of Covid-19? Implications for research and practice (2021), BRQ Business Research Quarterly

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gomez-Mejia include:

  • Geoffrey Martin
  • Francesco Chirico
  • Patricio Durán
  • Alfredo De Massis
  • María J. Sánchez-Bueno

Common publication venues for their research are:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Family Business Strategy
  • Journal of Management Studies
  • Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Gomez-Mejia has been recognized as a Dean of Fellow by the Academy of Management.

Best Publications

  • Socioemotional Wealth and Business Risks in Family-controlled Firms: Evidence from Spanish Olive Oil Mills

    Luis R. Gómez-Mejía;Katalin Takács Haynes;Manuel Núñez-Nickel;Kathyrn J. L. Jacobson

  • Socioemotional Wealth in Family Firms Theoretical Dimensions, Assessment Approaches, and Agenda for Future Research

    Pascual Berrone;Cristina Cruz;Luis R. Gomez-Mejia

  • Socioemotional Wealth and Corporate Responses to Institutional Pressures: Do Family-Controlled Firms Pollute Less?:

    Pascual Berrone;Cristina Cruz;Luis R. Gomez-Mejia;Martin Larraza-Kintana

  • The Bind that Ties: Socioemotional Wealth Preservation in Family Firms

    Luis R. Gomez-Mejia;Cristina Cruz;Pascual Berrone;Julio De Castro

  • A Behavioral Agency Model of Managerial Risk Taking

    Robert M. Wiseman;Luis R. Gomez-Mejia

  • The Role of Family Ties in Agency Contracts

    Luis R. Gomez-Mejia;Manuel Nuñez-Nickel;Isabel Gutierrez

  • Necessity as the mother of ‘green’ inventions: Institutional pressures and environmental innovations

    Pascual Berrone;Andrea Fosfuri;Liliana Gelabert;Luis R. Gomez-Mejia

  • The Bind that Ties: Socioemotional Wealth Preservation in Family Firms

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  • How Much Does Performance Matter? A Meta-Analysis of CEO Pay Studies

    Henry L. Tosi;Steve Werner;Jeffrey P. Katz;Luis R. Gomez-Mejia

  • Gestión de recursos humanos

    Luis R. Gomez-Mejia;David B. Balkin;Robert L. Cardy

  • Diversification Decisions in Family‐Controlled Firms

    Luis R. Gomez-Mejia;Marianna Makri;Martin Larraza Kintana

  • Environmental Performance and Executive Compensation: An Integrated Agency-Institutional Perspective

    Pascual Berrone;Luis R. Gomez-Mejia

  • The Decoupling of CEO Pay and Performance: An Agency Theory Perspective

    Henry L. Tosi;Luis R. Gomez-Mejia

  • The Determinants of Executive Compensation in Family-Controlled Public Corporations

    Luis R. Gomez-Mejia;Martin Larraza-Kintana;Marianna Makri

  • Determinants of faculty pay: An agency theory perspective.

    Luis R. Gomez-Mejia;David B. Balkin

  • Compensation, Organizational Strategy, and Firm Performance

    Luis R. Gomez-Mejia;David B. Balkin

  • Socioemotional Wealth and Proactive Stakeholder Engagement: Why Family‐Controlled Firms Care More About Their Stakeholders

    Carmelo Cennamo;Pascual Berrone;Cristina Cruz;Luis R. Gomez‐Mejia

  • IS CEO PAY IN HIGH-TECHNOLOGY FIRMS RELATED TO INNOVATION?

    David B. Balkin;Gideon D. Markman;Luis R. Gomez-Mejia

  • Managerial Control, Performance, and Executive Compensation

    Luis R. Gomez-mejia;Henry Tosi;Timothy Hinkin

  • Cultural Diversity and the Performance of Multinational Firms

    Luis R. Gómez-mejia;Leslie E. Palich

  • Managerial compensation and firm performance : A general research framework

    Harry G. Barkema;Luis R. Gomez-Mejia

Frequent Co-Authors

David B. Balkin
David B. Balkin University of Colorado Boulder
Francesco Chirico
Francesco Chirico Macquarie University
Henry L. Tosi
Henry L. Tosi University of Florida
Alfredo Vittorio De Massis
Alfredo Vittorio De Massis Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Mattias Nordqvist
Mattias Nordqvist Stockholm School of Economics
Peter W. Hom
Peter W. Hom Arizona State University
Bradley L. Kirkman
Bradley L. Kirkman North Carolina State University
Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens
Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens Erasmus University Rotterdam
Herman Aguinis
Herman Aguinis George Washington University
Peter Bamberger
Peter Bamberger Tel Aviv University

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