Research Specialties

• Family business
• Governance
• Leadership
• Organizational communication 
  

Current Research

• Governance in family business 
• The landscape of family business 
•  Family capital
• Entrepreneurship in family business 
  

Major works

• Sorenson, R., A. Yu, K. H. Brigham, and G. T. Lumpkin. The Landscape of Family Business. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming.
• Social Capital and Family Business. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• “How moral and social values become embedded in family firms,” Journal of Management Spirituality and Religion 10:1 (2013).
• Spriggs, Mark, Andy Yu, David Deeds, and Ritch Sorenson, “Too many cooks in the Kitchen: Innovation capacity, collaborative network orientation, and performance in small family businesses,” Family Business Review XX:X (2012).
• Yu, Andy, G. T. Lumpkin, Ritch L. Sorenson, and Keith H. Brigham, “The landscape of family business outcomes: A summary and numerical taxonomy of dependent variables,” Family Business Review 25:1 (2011): 33-57.
• Sorenson, Ritch, C.A. Folker and K. H. Brigham, "The Collaborative Network Orientation: Achieving Business Success Through Collaborative Relationships,"  Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (2008).
• Sorenson, Ritch, M. Hoelscher and J. Hoffman, "Achieving Sustained Competitive Advantage: A Family Capital Theory," Family Business Review 24:2 (2006). 
• "The Contribution of Leadership Styles and Practices to Family and Business Success," Family Business Review 12:3 (2000).
• "Conflict Strategies Used by Successful Family Businesses," Family Business Review 12:4 (1999).
• Sorenson, Ritch, E. A. Morse and G.T. Savage, "What Motivates Choice of Conflict Strategies?" International Journal of Conflict Management 10:1 (1999).
  

Significant Scholarly Honors

• Best Dissertation Award, 2012, Family Firm Institute. Committee for Annette Rahael.
• The 2009 Jack A. Dinos/Cox Family Enterprise Center Best Family Business Paper Award, Academy of Management.
• Associate Editor, Family Business Review, 2008-2012.
• Opus Endowed Chair in Family Business, 2007-present.
• Trinity Companies Professor in Management, 2004-2007 , Texas Tech University. 
• Best Dissertation Award, 2002, Family Firm Institute. Co-Director for Mark Hoelscher.