James Combs

48 catalog papers. Identity-linked publications and additional name matches are distinguished below.

ORCID: 0000-0003-2913-3934

Department of Management, College of Business, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

Publications

• Return Migrant Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2026
• More Than One Way to Pivot: The Case for Opportunity and Survival Pivots — Journal of Management 2025
• When Do Shareholder Agreements Add Value? Mitigating Superprincipal-Agency Conflicts in Family Firms — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2024
• Four Approaches to New Venture Creation: Taking Stock and Moving Forward — Journal of Management 2024
• Contextualizing Lean Startup and Alternative Approaches for New Venture Creation: Introducing the Special Issue — Journal of Management 2024
• Parenting the Successor: It Starts at Home and Leaves an Enduring Impact on the Family Business — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2023
• The Influence of Task Environmental Uncertainty on the Balance Between Normative and Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility — Journal of Management 2023
• More Bang for Their Buck: Why (and When) Family Firms Better Leverage Corporate Social Responsibility — Journal of Management 2023
• After the startup: A collection to spur research about entrepreneurial growth — Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2023
• The Wright stuff: A tribute to Mike Wright — Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2021
• Entrepreneurship at a crossroads: Meta-analysis as a foundation and path forward — Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2021
• Managing history: How New Zealand's Gallagher Group used rhetorical narratives to reprioritize and modify imprinted strategic guideposts — Strategic Management Journal 2020
• The impact of hiring directors' choice-supportive bias and escalation of commitment on CEO compensation and dismissal following poor performance: A multimethod study — Strategic Management Journal 2020
• Successful Scaling in Social Franchising: The Case of Impact Hub — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2020
• Franchise management capabilities and franchisor performance under alternative franchise ownership strategies — Journal of Business Venturing 2020
• A Transaction Cost Perspective of Alliance Portfolio Diversity — Journal of Management Studies 2020
• Meta-Analytic Research in Management: Contemporary Approaches, Unresolved Controversies, and Rising Standards — Journal of Management Studies 2019
• Moving Toward a Generalizable Theory of Business-Owning Families’ Reference Point Shifts by Embracing Family Differences — Academy of Management Review 2019
• The Effect of Transgenerational Control Intention on Family-Firm Performance: It Depends Who Pursues It — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2019
• Competence- and Integrity-Based Trust in Interorganizational Relationships: Which Matters More? — Journal of Management 2018
• Introducing the Family: A Review of Family Science with Implications for Management Research — Academy of Management Annals 2017
• Home Alone: The Effects of Lone-Insider Boards on CEO Pay, Financial Misconduct, and Firm Performance — Strategic Management Journal 2017
• The Effects of Founder and Family Ownership on Hired CEOs’ Incentives and Firm Performance — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2017
• Founder Versus Family Owners’ Impact on Pay Dispersion Among Non-CEO Top Managers: Implications for Firm Performance — Journal of Management 2017
• Enduring Entrepreneurship: Antecedents, Triggering Mechanisms, and Outcomes — Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2016
• Entrepreneurial legacy: Toward a theory of how some family firms nurture transgenerational entrepreneurship — Journal of Business Venturing 2015
• Using Resource–Based Theory to Help Explain Plural Form Franchising — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2014
• Insights from Family Science: The Case of Innovation — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2013
• Who should own it? An agency-based explanation for multi-outlet ownership and co-location in plural form franchising — Strategic Management Journal 2012
• Assessing Cumulative Evidence within ‘Macro’ Research: Why Meta-Analysis Should be Preferred Over Vote Counting — Journal of Management Studies 2011
• Franchising Research: Major Milestones, New Directions, and its Future within Entrepreneurship — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2011
• Is Franchising Entrepreneurship? Yes, No, and Maybe So — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2011
• The Role of Resource Flexibility in Leveraging Strategic Resources — Journal of Management Studies 2011
• Antecedents and Consequences of Franchising: Past Accomplishments and Future Challenges — Journal of Management 2011
• The Impact of Family Representation on CEO Compensation — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2010
• Big Samples and Small Effects: Let's Not Trade Relevance and Rigor for Power — Academy of Management Journal 2010
• Institutional Influences on the Choice of Organizational Form: The Case of Franchising — Journal of Management 2009
• Strategic resources and performance: a meta-analysis† — Strategic Management Journal 2008
• Commentary: The Servant, the Parasite, and the Enigma: A Tale of Three Ownership Structures and Their Affiliate Directors — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2008
• The Moderating Effect of CEO Power on the Board Composition–Firm Performance Relationship* — Journal of Management Studies 2007
• Sources and consequences of bargaining power in supply chains — Journal of Operations Management 2007
• Shifting Imperatives: An Integrative View of Resource Scarcity and Agency Reasons for Franchising — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2006
• Franchising: A Review and Avenues to Greater Theoretical Diversity — Journal of Management 2004
• A strategic groups approach to the franchising–performance relationship — Journal of Business Venturing 2004
• Why Do Firms Use Franchising as an Entrepreneurial Strategy?: A Meta-Analysis — Journal of Management 2003 (name-matched, not ORCID-linked)
• Managerialist and Human Capital Explanations for Key Executive Pay Premiums: A Contingency Perspective — Academy of Management Journal 2003
• Can Capital Scarcity Help Agency Theory Explain Franchising? Revisiting the Capital Scarcity Hypothesis — Academy of Management Journal 1999
• Organizational Configurations And Performance: A Meta-Analysis — Academy of Management Journal 1997