Signaling Family Firm Identity
Familiy Firm Identification and its Effects on Job Seekers’ Perceptions about a Potential Employer| By: | Sandra Wolf |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9783658206710 |
| eText ISBN: | 9783658206727 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2018 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Sandra Wolf develops a better understanding of the importance of clearly communicating family influence. She examines the efficacy of brand elements that signal family influence and that help external stakeholders to identify a family firm. An experiment with 543 students in Germany and Switzerland is carried out to empirically test the derived hypothesis. The results highlight two important findings. Firstly, the importance of a family firm tagline as well as the family name as brand elements are able to signal "family firm" and this helps potential employees to immediately categorize the potential employer. Secondly, a positive relationship between the identification of a family firm and applicant attraction was confirmed as to that the relationship is serially mediated by perceived brand authenticity and perceived benevolence.