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Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice articles from June 2003
This scholarly journal publishes original papers and conceptual and empirical articles in the field of entrepreneurship, including national and international studies of enterprise creation, small business management, minority issues in entrepreneurship, and more.
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Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice archives from June 2003
Extending the theoretical horizons of family business research.
June 22, 2003... Family-owned firms account for a large percentage of the economic activities in the United States and Canada. Estimates run from 40 to 60 percent of the U.S. gross national product (Neubauer & Lank, 1998), in addition to employment for up to...
Managing resources: linking unique resources, management, and wealth creation in family firms.
June 22, 2003... The appropriate resources are necessary but insufficient to achieve a competitive advantage. Resources must also be managed effectively. Herein, we develop a resource management process model composed of three components that can lead to a...
Creating wealth in family firms through managing resources: comments and extensions.
June 22, 2003... Sirmon and Hitt (2003) do an excellent job of describing the pivotal role that resources unique to a family firm can play in a company's survival and success. Grounded in the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm, their article maps how these...
Agency problems in large family business groups.
June 22, 2003... Greater managerial ownership in family firms need not mitigate agency problems, especially when each family controls a group of publicly traded and private firms, as is the case in most countries. Such structures give rise to their own set of...
Help one another, use one another: toward an anthropology of family business *.
June 22, 2003... Anthropological kinship theory is explored for potential contributions to a theory of family business. This article considers the costs and benefits of a role for kinship in business. Both derive from the discrepancy between the normative...
Nothing thicker than blood? Commentary on "Help One Another, Use One Another: Toward an Anthropology of Family Business" *.
June 22, 2003... In this commentary, the received definitions of kin-based business are expanded in a way that allows application of the concept to a wider variety of cultures. Three types of kin-based enterprise are discussed: blood and marriage, spiritual,...
The family: the missing variable in organizational research *.
June 22, 2003... Few studies in the mainstream management literature have included the family as a variable. The focus of this article is to describe (1) why there is a dearth of research using family as a variable; (2) how failing to use the family as a...
Legitimizing family business scholarship in organizational research and education.
June 22, 2003... Where to begin and where to end? The overlapping domains of organizational research and family business encompass huge bodies of literature and a myriad of subtopics. The study of organizations is well established in academia and is viewed as a...