Although the family business research field and related disciplines are paying increasing attention to improvements in methodology, there is still insufficient attention being paid to endogeneity issues. We therefore raise awareness of endogeneity and suggest ways to reduce biased results in family business studies. We review publications in the family business literature in terms of (1) the consideration of endogeneity issues, (2) sources of endogeneity for different research topics, and (3) various methods that researchers have used to control for endogeneity. We discuss important lessons learned from the review and offer methodologically oriented recommendations for future family business studies.

尽管家族企业研究领域和相关学科越来越关注方法论的改进，但对内生性问题的关注仍然不够。因此，我们提高了对内生性的认识，并提出了减少家族企业研究中偏倚结果的方法。我们从 (1) 对内生性问题的考虑，(2) 不同研究主题的内生性来源，以及 (3) 研究人员用来控制内生性的各种方法来审查家族企业文献中的出版物。我们讨论了从审查中汲取的重要经验教训，并为未来的家族企业研究提供了面向方法的建议。