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Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice articles from November 2008
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 November 2008
Toward a theoretical basis for understanding the dynamics of strategic performance in family firms.(Report)
November 1, 2008... An important distinction between family and nonfamily firms and among different types of family firms is the manner in which strategy is formulated and implemented. These differences in strategic behaviors can cause variations in firm...
Toward a theory of familiness: a social capital perspective.(Report)
November 1, 2008... In the search for ways in which the family firm context is unique to organizational science, the construct of "familiness" has been identified and defined as resources and capabilities that are unique to the family's involvement and...
Commentary: familiness: capital stocks and flows between family and business.(Report)
November 1, 2008... Because constructs and variables are the building blocks of hypotheses and propositions, theorists must first evaluate them before analyzing the relational properties of theories. If they are working with inappropriate constructs and variables,...
The role of family influence in firms' strategic responses to threat of imitation.(Report)
November 1, 2008... We integrate theory on the resource-based view and threat rigidity with family business research to explain the role family influence plays in responding to threats of imitation. As opposed to family control, we find that family influence...
Commentary: what were they thinking? The role of family firm mental models on threat recognition.(Report)
November 1, 2008... In this commentary, we extend Sirmon, Arregle, Hitt, and Webb's work in this issue by introducing shared mental models as antecedents of threat of imitability recognition and as moderators of the relationship between threat recognition and...
Affiliate directors and perceived risk bearing in publicly traded, family-controlled firms: the case of diversification.(Report)
November 1, 2008... The present study examines the influence exerted by affiliate directors in the diversification decisions of family-controlled, publicly traded firms. Using a relational view based on the development of social capital, we argue that affiliate...
Commentary: the servant, the parasite, and the enigma: a tale of three ownership structures and their affiliate directors.(Report)
November 1, 2008... In private family firms, affiliate directors are largely resource-providing servants of the family. In nonfamily public firms with dispersed ownership, affiliates are, figuratively speaking, symbiotic parasites loyally supporting their...
Culture of family commitment and strategic flexibility: the moderating effect of stewardship.(Report)
November 1, 2008... The ability of family firms to identify and respond to changes in their external environments can be a key source of competitive advantage leading to success and survival. Some research, however, has suggested family firms are conservative and...
Commentary: the prequel to family firm culture and stewardship: the leadership perspective of the founder.(Report)
November 1, 2008... This commentary considers the role of the founder in establishing a family firm's culture. Drawing from transformational leadership theory, it is argued that a founder who displays transformational leadership behaviors may be more likely to...
Unleashing the relationship power of family firms: identity confirmation as a catalyst for performance.(Report)
November 1, 2008... This paper adopts a broad perspective on identity and identity relations and argues that family businesses can develop identity confirmation as a unique, hard to imitate competitive resource that unleashes and leverages the relational...
Commentary and extension: moderating the outcome of identity confirmation in family firms.(Report)
November 1, 2008... In this commentary, I provide suggestions for further refining the way we view and apply the identity confirmation concept to family businesses. I distinguish different family types, such as the core family, the extended family, the patchwork...
Examining the link between "familiness" and performance: can the F-PEC untangle the family business theory jungle?(familiness-power, experience, and culture scale)(Report)
November 1, 2008... Family business research appears to be caught in a "jungle" of competing theories in regards to familiness and performance. This study provides a further empirical examination into that relationship. We employ a family influence scale (the...
Practitioner commentary: moving from theory to practice in family business research.(Report)
November 1, 2008... This paper examines the papers presented at the 2007 Theories of Family Enterprise Conference for their applicability to practice and presents some ideas to make family business research more appropriate to practitioners. In general, we found...