TY  - JOUR
A1  - Neffe, C.
A1  - Wilderom, C.P.M.
A1  - Lattuch, F.
T1  - Family firm performance through transformational CEO leadership and familiness-related team forces
T2  - Leadership & Organization Development Journal
N2  - Purpose. The purpose of this study is to test the role of familiness-related team forces induced by the CEO of family firms. In particular, we report on the effects of the transformational leadership style of CEOs on their respective top-management team (TMT) and firm performance when viewed through a familiness lens.

Design/methodology/approach. Survey measures were taken from a snowballed
sample of 72 CEOs of German family firms as well as from 245 members of their TMTs. We tested the aggregated firm-level data with objective performance indicators of the firms they led.

Findings. Support was obtained for the three hypothesized team-force mediations and the four-path mediation model. The relationship between CEO’s transformational style and
high family-firm performance is found to be serially mediated by TMT cohesion, behavioral integration and efficacy. Together, these three types of collective forces are assumed to be the
familiness effect of a family-member CEO with a transformational leadership style.

Originality. With our model we quantitatively tested familiness-type forces vis-à-vis firm performance. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.
KW  - Executive Leadership, employee behaviors, Team-oriented leadership
Y1  - 2024
UR  - https://www.hb.fh-muenster.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/17951
SN  - 0143-7739
VL  - 45
IS  - im Erscheinen
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