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This timely Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the methodological challenges of qualitative research in family business. Written by an international, multidisciplinary team of experts in the field, the Handbook provides practical guidance based on the experiences of senior researchers, and features reflective discussion on how to craft insightful, rigorous studies.



Contents:

List of contributors vii
Foreword by Roy Suddaby x
Foreword by Professor Trish Reay xii
1 Frequently asked questions in qualitative family business research and some
guidelines to avoid risky paths 1
Nadine Kammerlander and Alfredo De Massis

PART I TRENDS AND PROSPECTS IN FAMILY BUSINESS
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS
2 Qualitative research in family business: methodological insights to leverage
inspiration, avoid data asphyxiation and develop robust theory 25
Evelyn Micelotta, Vern L. Glaser and Gabrielle Dorian
3 Full-cycle research in family business contexts: combining qualitative case
studies and quantitative methods 48
Kimberly D. Elsbach and Ishita Ghai
4 Ethnography: a much-advocated but underused qualitative methodology
in published accounts of family business research 72
Denise Fletcher and Rocky Adiguna
5 Historical methods in family business studies 98
Andrea Colli and Paloma Fernandez Perez

PART II CASE STUDY RESEARCH
6 The evolution of case study methodology in the study of family enterprises 125
Giacomo Laffranchini and Frank Hoy
7 The case study in family business: current perspectives and suggestions for
the future 161
Tanja Leppäaho, Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki, Katerina Kampouri and
Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki
8 Religion and business families' philanthropic practices 191
Navneet Bhatnagar, Pramodita Sharma and Kavil Ramachandran
9 How can qualitative research advance the understanding of family firms'
internationalization? A multiple case study of family firms internationalizing
into China and India 208
Claudia Pongelli and Andrea Calabrò

PART III USING NARRATIVE-BASED APPROACHES AND
INVESTIGATING INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
10 Mapping narratives in family business studies: a guideline for researchers 224
Michela Floris, Cinzia Dessì and Angela Dettori
11 Growth through innovation and internationalization: exploring the role of
family business identity through narrative analysis 248
Alexandra Dawson, Maria José Parada Balderrama and Alberto Gimeno
Sandig
12 Illuminating the space between: investigating interpersonal relationships in
family firms through qualitative inquiry 270
Matthias Waldkirch

PART IV ALTERNATIVE METHODS AND METHODOLOGIES
13 Reasons, opportunities and methods for a visual analysis of organizational
tensions in family business 284
Mara Brumana, Attilia Ruzzene and Katerina Vasilevska
14 The fsQCA method in family business research 304
Daniel Pittino, Francesca Visintin and Giancarlo Lauto
15 Treating non-family managers like family: new insights from a re-analysis of
pre-existing qualitative interview data 321
Jennifer E. Jennings, Albert E. James and Elizabeth A. Tetzlaff
16 Research methods on emotions in family business 351
Rania Labaki

PART V PUBLISHING QUALITATIVE FAMILY BUSINESS RESEARCH
AND ADDRESSING PRACTICAL ISSUES
17 Why do so many qualitative studies of family businesses get rejected?
Confessions of a recovering associate editor of the Family Business Review 390
W. Gibb Dyer
18 Engaging practitioners in qualitative family business research: an engaged
scholarship approach 399
Judith van Helvert-Beugels, Mattias Nordqvist and Leif Melin
19 Bridging communication, building trust: the art and science of getting
access to informants and preparing them for in-depth qualitative inquiry 418
Leilanie Mohd Nor and Mohar Yusof

Index 427