Mapping The Literature of Family Business Management (FBM): Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Review

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1 Shanti Business School, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

2 Fellow and Former Head, Trade Commerce and Strategic Economic Dialogue, Niti Aayog, Goverment of India

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The purpose of this paper is to conduct a Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis in the area of Family Business Management. Data was collected from Scopus database, with the help of advance search feature, initially 81 articles were extracted and after filtration finally 43 research articles were considered for this study. MS excel and VOS viewer were used for analysis. This study gave useful insights which can be of scholarly implications in future. After the year 2011 there is a rise in number of research articles published in Scopus database from the domain of Family Business Management, in this study we found that USA, Canada and Spain are the significant contributors of Articles in the domain of FBM. So far most of the articles published in this domain of FBM are based on the key themes of Gender roles, Succession planning, and ownership related issues. This study indicates the future areas of research in the domain of FBM, in future scholars can undertake studies like Effectiveness of various functional areas like Marketing, Finance, HR, Operations and Supply chain in the context of Family owned businesses. Even the usefulness of emerging areas like Fintech, Digital marketing, and HR Analytics can be studied in future.

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