Although the study of family firm internationalization has generated considerable scholarly attention, existing research has offered varied and at times incompatible findings on how family ownership and management shape internationalization. To improve our understanding of family firm internationalization, we systematically review 220 conceptual and empirical studies published over the past three decades, structuring our comprehensive overview of this field according to seven core international business (IB) themes. We assess the literature and propose directions for future research by developing an integrative framework of family firm internationalization that links IB theory with conceptual perspectives used in the reviewed body of work. We propose a research agenda that advocates a cross-disciplinary, multi-theoretic, and cross-level approach to studying family firm internationalization. We conclude that family firm internationalization research has the potential to contribute valuable insights to IB scholarship by increasing attention to conceptual and methodological issues, including micro-level affective motivations, background social institutions, temporal perspectives, and multi-level analyses.

尽管对家族企业国际化的研究引起了学术界的广泛关注，但现有的研究提供了关于家族所有权和管理如何塑造国际化的不同且有时互不相容的发现。为了提高我们对家族企业国际化的理解，我们系统地回顾了过去三十年发表的 220 项概念和实证研究，根据七个核心国际商业 (IB) 主题构建了我们对该领域的全面概述。我们通过开发家族企业国际化的综合框架来评估文献并提出未来研究的方向，该框架将 IB 理论与所审查工作中使用的概念观点联系起来。我们提出了一个研究议程，提倡跨学科、多理论、和跨层次研究家族企业国际化的方法。我们得出结论，家族企业国际化研究有可能通过增加对概念和方法问题的关注，为 IB 学术贡献宝贵的见解，包括微观层面的情感动机、背景社会制度、时间观点和多层次分析。