December 2023 MBR The Economic Studies Shelf

The Economic Studies Shelf

Field Guide to Family Business Research
Keith H. Brigham, editor
G. Tyge Payne, editor
Edward Elgar Publishing
www.e-elgar.com
9781800884137, $145.00, HC, 264pp

https://www.amazon.com/Field-Family-Business-Research-Guides/dp/1800884133

Synopsis: Collaboratively compiled and co-edited by Professors Keith H. Brigham and G. T. Payne, "The Field Guide to Family Business Research" from Edward Elgar Publishing is a concise and accessible guidebook that addresses the unique challenges associated with conducting high-quality family business research. Intended for both new and more experienced scholars, experts provide essential guidelines and insightful best practices for overcoming these challenges.

Comprehensive in scope and split into three key parts, the contributors to "The Field Guide to Family Business Research" address general, qualitative and quantitative challenges and their various solutions. Chapters examine three primary research challenges: failure to demonstrate a clear and unique contribution to the extant literature; failure to properly frame and align an argument's theory and hypothesis; and finally, failure to measure and conduct appropriate methodological and empirical approaches to a study. Ultimately, the solutions presented offer a better understanding of the unique aspects of conducting research in the family business domain.

With a wealth of expertise and practical information, "The Field Guide to Family Business Research" will be of great benefit to anyone conducting research in family business. It will be especially helpful to researchers and students of business management, law, public policy and social policy as well as consultants and practitioners in the field of family business.

Critique: Exceptionally well organized and presented, "The Field Guide to Family Business Research" also includes a two page listing of the contributors and their credentials. A seminal contribution to personal, professional, community, and college/university library Business Management collections and supplemental MBA curriculum studies lists, "The Field Guide to Family Business Research" should be considered essential reading for anyone engaging in, or aspiring to, the management of a family owned business.

Editorial Note #1: Keith H. Brigham is the Professor of Entrepreneurship, Director, Tom Love Division of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma. (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5QQ8-OYAAAAJ)

Editorial Note #2: G. Tyge Payne (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lbRbss8AAAAJ) is Professor of Entrepreneurship, Stephenson Department of Entrepreneurship & Information Systems, Louisiana State University, US

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