Caicedo Leitón, Ana LucíaLarraza Kintana, Martín2023-10-312023-10-312023Caicedo Leitón, A. L., Larraza Kintana, M. (2023) Emotional heterogeneity and intergenerational knowledge transfer in family firms. Journal of High Technology Management Research, 34(2), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hitech.2023.100480.1047-831010.1016/j.hitech.2023.100480https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/46692With this study, we attempt to understand how emotions influence the intergenerational transfer of knowledge in family businesses from the perspective of emotional heterogeneity. We use a qualitative methodology of multiple case studies to comprehensively address theissue. The results indicate that emotions influence knowledge transmission and learning, sotransmission is more effective in Enmeshed and Balanced family businesses than in Disengaged ones.application/pdfeng© 2023 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND licenseEmotional archetypesEmotionsFamily businessKnowledge transferinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article2023-10-31info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess