Evolution of the Intellectual Structure of Family Business Literature: A Bibliometric Study of FBR
通过作者共引分析，研究了1988年至2005年间《家族企业评论》所有论文，识别出家族企业研究领域内的不同趋势，发现该领域虽碎片化但研究前沿正在扩展。
This article aims at identifying the characteristics of the family business as a differentiated field within management. For that aim, we use author co-citation analysis (ACA) to identify different research trends within the field, studying all the papers published in the Family Business Review from its foundation in 1988 through to the December 2005 issue. Results show that despite the literature being fragmented and showing a lack of consensus, we are facing, in Kuhn's words, a development of the research frontier by enlarging the number of approaches used for understanding the family business.