Literature on corporate social responsibility (CSR) is yet vague concerning who is being held responsible; for what, by whom. Corporations are commonly treated as the focal actors of interest. We explore the notion of micro accountability to shed light on how an individual’s multiple roles and...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to improve our understanding of the nature of social responsibility in actual practices and, specifically, the influence of individuals on these processes. Design/methodology/approach – An abductive approach is applied (Alvesson and Sköldberg 1994),...

Family firms are special! The jury still seems to be divided when it comes to family firms superiority (cf Andersson and Reeb, 2004 vs Miller et al., 2007), but most commentators agree that there is something unique about family firms as a group. This uniqueness is often referred to as the...

Recent publications among family business scholars reveal an emerging interest to investigate questions related to marketing communications and brand management. An underlying question for this research is whether, how, and under what circumstances the portrayal of a family business identity...

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to understand the logics at work when companies establish their corporate brand identities. Essential to this quest is to understand the reasoning of which corporate traits to communicate. As a case in point we target firms that make reference to being a...

Corporate value statements - a means for family-controlled firms to monitor the agent?