TY - JOUR
T1 - The influence of familiness on decision-making quality in top management teams
T2 - The role of emotional dissonance and perceived team support
AU - Hoekx, Laura
AU - Lambrechts, Frank
AU - Vandekerkhof, Pieter
AU - Voordeckers, Wim
AU - Frank, Hermann
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This article studies the relationship between familiness, approached from a new systems theory perspective, and decision-making quality in family firm top management teams. We focus on two potential explanations of this relationship by examining the mediating role of emotional dissonance and perceived team support. A hand-collected multiple-respondent dataset of 212 top managers from 45 Belgian family firm TMTs shows a positive relationship between familiness and decision-making quality, mediated by the level of perceived team support. Moreover, we find that familiness decreases the level of emotional dissonance experienced by these top managers.
AB - This article studies the relationship between familiness, approached from a new systems theory perspective, and decision-making quality in family firm top management teams. We focus on two potential explanations of this relationship by examining the mediating role of emotional dissonance and perceived team support. A hand-collected multiple-respondent dataset of 212 top managers from 45 Belgian family firm TMTs shows a positive relationship between familiness and decision-making quality, mediated by the level of perceived team support. Moreover, we find that familiness decreases the level of emotional dissonance experienced by these top managers.
KW - Decision-making quality
KW - Emotional dissonance
KW - Familiness
KW - New systems theory
KW - Perceived team support
U2 - 10.1016/j.jfbs.2022.100538
DO - 10.1016/j.jfbs.2022.100538
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85142493118
SN - 1877-8585
JO - Journal of Family Business Strategy
JF - Journal of Family Business Strategy
M1 - 100538
ER -