Familiness, perceived as family members' involvement in and influence on the functioning of the family business, constitutes the distinguishing feature of every family firm. In the paper, we empirically test the relationships between familiness, innovation input and output and organizational performance in a post‐transition economy using data from 200 Polish family firms. Our research results reveal that high levels of ownership, management and control of the firm by the family members, perceived as part of familiness, lead to increased firm performance. Second, results show that the increase in the degree of familiness lowers the innovation input. We also found out that increases in the transgenerational orientation of a family business and family–employee bonds lead to decreased innovation output and higher family business identity generate higher innovation output.

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波兰家族企业的家庭，创新和组织绩效之间的关系

家族企业被视为家族成员参与并影响家族企业运作的要素，构成了每个家族企业的显着特征。在本文中，我们使用来自200家波兰家族企业的数据，对转型后经济中家庭，创新投入与产出与组织绩效之间的关系进行了经验检验。我们的研究结果表明，家族成员对公司的高度所有权，管理和控制被视为家族的一部分，从而导致了公司绩效的提高。其次，结果表明，家族程度的提高会降低创新投入。