@article{NeffeWilderomLattuch2024,
  author    = {Neffe, C. and Wilderom, C.P.M. and Lattuch, F.},
  title     = {Family firm performance through transformational CEO leadership and familiness-related team forces},
  series = {Leadership \& Organization Development Journal},
  volume    = {45},
  journal   = {Leadership \& Organization Development Journal},
  number    = {im Erscheinen},
  issn      = {0143-7739},
  pages     = {. -- ..},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {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-{\`a}-vis firm performance. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.},
  language  = {en}
}