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Fly Solo, Then Return Home? (Sieger et al 2026) | FT50 JMS

Fly Solo, Then Return Home? (Sieger et al 2026) | FT50 JMS

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Sieger, P., Brinkerink, J., Baù, M., Karlsson, J. and De Massis, A. (2026), Fly Solo, Then Return Home? Offspring's Entrepreneurship Experience and their Future As Family Business Successors. J. Manage. Stud.. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.70114


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🎙️📚 Welcome to Revise and Resubmit!

The place where research papers stop looking like intimidating stacks of PDF files and start sounding like stories about real people, real choices, and the wonderfully complicated business of being human. 🌍✨

Today, we are diving into a fascinating new article, "Fly Solo, Then Return Home? Offspring's Entrepreneurship Experience and their Future As Family Business Successors," by Philipp Sieger, Jasper Brinkerink, Massimo Baù, Johan Karlsson, and Alfredo De Massis, recently published online on 29 May 2026 in the Journal of Management Studies, one of the world's most respected management journals and a proud member of the prestigious FT50 journal list. 🏆📖

Every family business carries a quiet question that is rarely written into the balance sheet. Will the next generation stay, or will they leave? And perhaps even more importantly, if they leave to chase their own dreams, can they ever truly come back?

This paper follows thousands of families across Sweden and discovers something deeply human. Sometimes the child who walks away to build a company of their own is not abandoning the family legacy at all. They are preparing themselves for it. Entrepreneurship becomes less of an escape and more of an apprenticeship. 🚀🏡

But life is never that simple. What happens when that independent venture becomes wildly successful? What happens when personal ambition and family obligation begin pulling in opposite directions? The authors show that succession is not just a business transaction. It is a conversation between generations, shaped by opportunity, identity, and the enduring gravity of home. ❤️

In many ways, this research reminds us that families are strange little economies. We invest in each other, we compete with each other, we leave, and sometimes, after seeing the world, we discover that the road forward circles back to where we started.

🙏 Our sincere thanks to the authors for this thoughtful contribution and to the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. for bringing this outstanding work to the scholarly community.

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