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Title: | Family firms and the labor productivity controversy: A distributional analysis of varying labor productivity gaps | Authors: | CREEMERS, Sarah PEETERS, Ludo QUIROZ CASTILLO, Juan Luis VANCAUTEREN, Mark VOORDECKERS, Wim |
Issue Date: | 2022 | Publisher: | ELSEVIER | Source: | Journal of family business strategy (Print), (Art N° 100515) | Abstract: | The question of whether family firms have a higher or lower labor productivity than nonfamily firms has led to a stream of inconsistent evidence. We address this polarized debate by arguing that the idiosyncratic workforce characteristics combined with the dual (socioemotional versus financial) wealth concerns of family firms may differ across the labor productivity distribution, which has a varying impact on the labor productivity differences of family firms versus nonfamily firms. Therefore, we use the method of unconditional quantile regression in our empirical testing on a rich data set containing firm-level data from a national survey of nearly 6,400 Chilean businesses, which allows us to account for the heterogeneous behavior of family firms throughout the entire labor productivity distribution rather than to focus on the difference in mean productivities merely. In line with our theoretical arguments, we find that family ownership generates a productivity advantage for firms located in the lower tail of the labor productivity distribution, whereas it exhibits a negative effect on labor productivity in the upper tail compared to their nonfamily counterparts. Our findings are robust to potential endogeneity of family ownership and offer a reconciling perspective on the contrasting labor-related agency and stewardship arguments dominating the labor productivity debate in family firms so far by showing which argument dominates depending on where the firm is located on the labor productivity distribution. | Keywords: | Family firms;labor productivity;Unconditional quantile regression;Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/37936 | Link to publication/dataset: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877858522000390 | ISSN: | 1877-8585 | e-ISSN: | 1877-8593 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.jfbs.2022.100515 | ISI #: | 001027328600001 | Rights: | 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution |
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