We are honored to present the fourth Review Issue of Family Business Review (FBR). In 2016, FBR Editors Jeremy C. Short, Pramodita Sharma, Thomas Lumpkin, and Allison W. Pearson launched a series of special issues in FBR to track and understand the fast evolution of family business research produced since the early 1970s. With more than 2,000 family business articles published in the 1990s (Sharma, 2015), and more than 4,000 articles published between 2010 and 2014, they anticipated that the 2020s “would likely yield over 8,000 new peer-reviewed journal articles on family business” (Short et al., 2016, p. 11). Based on the Scopus database at the time we write this editorial (January 2022), we now found 20,041 document results containing the keyword “family business.” Clearly, as it stands, scholarly production on the subject has further grown, accelerating even beyond those ambitious expectations made just 5 years ago. This fast-growing trend raised the need to organize an increasingly diversified body of knowledge and shape the production of new knowledge in a way that adds and extends on what has been done before, to ultimately favor knowledge accumulation.

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随着时间的推移积累知识：第四期 FBR 审查问题简介

我们很荣幸介绍《家族企业评论》（FBR）的第四期评论。2016 年，FBR编辑 Jeremy C. Short、Pramodita Sharma、Thomas Lumpkin 和 Allison W. Pearson 在FBR推出了一系列特刊跟踪和了解自 1970 年代初期以来产生的家族企业研究的快速发展。他们在 1990 年代发表了 2,000 多篇家族企业文章（Sharma，2015 年），在 2010 年至 2014 年间发表了 4,000 多篇文章，他们预计 2020 年代“可能会产生超过 8,000 篇关于家族企业的新同行评审期刊文章”（ Short 等人，2016 年，第 11 页）。根据我们撰写这篇社论时（2022 年 1 月）的 Scopus 数据库，我们现在发现了 20,041 个包含关键字“家族企业”的文档结果。显然，就目前而言，有关该主题的学术产出进一步增长，甚至超出了 5 年前做出的雄心勃勃的期望。