Caspersz, DonellaWang, YongHenssen, BartTomaselli, SalvatoreKarlsson, Johan2025-01-232025-01-232025-02-16Caspersz, D., Wang, Y., Henssen, B., Tomaselli, S., & Karlsson, J. (2025). CEO Resilience in Family Firms in Times of Crisis. Family Business Review, 38 (1), pp. 58-80. https://doi.org/10.1177/089448652513199540894-486510.1177/08944865251319954http://hdl.handle.net/2436/625824© 2025 The Authors. Published by SAGE. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.1177/08944865251319954The purpose of this paper is to understand the conditions that influence family CEOs’ resilience in times of crisis. Drawing upon social cognitive theory and adopting a fsQCA analytic approach, the article analyzes data from 67 family businesses. The findings show that CEO resilience emerges from the interplay of different sets of conditions in single- and multi-generational family businesses. The study makes the contribution that CEO resilience is contingent on dynamics at individual, family, and business levels, suggesting that CEO resilience in crisis times reflects a “crisis bricolage” of “making do” with resources that are “in hand” and “within reach”.application/pdfenfamily businessCEO resiliencecrisis bricolageJournal article1741-6248Family Business Review2025-01-22