Entrepreneurial Orientation, Risk Taking, and Performance in Family Firms

By Lucia Naldi, Mattias Nordqvist, Karin Sjöberg, Johan Wiklund. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Entrepreneurship and Family Firm Research: A Bibliometric Analysis of An Emerging Field* (2016, background): “than nonfamily firms (Naldi et al. 2007) and that the long tenure of the founder CEO also decreases their entrepreneurial behavior (Zahra”
The internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises: the effect of family management, human capital and foreign ownership (2010, background): “4 For a review of literature on entrepreneurial orientation and risk taking in family businesses see Naldi et al. (2007).”
Ability and Willingness as Sufficiency Conditions for Family‐Oriented Particularistic Behavior: Implications for Theory and Empirical Studies (2014, background): “Reasons proposed include undiversified wealth needed to maintain controlling ownership (e.g., La Porta et al. 1999; Morck and Yeung 2003; Naldi et al. 2007; Schulze, Lubatkin, and Dino 2002), fear of losing control (McConaughy, Matthews, and Fialko 2001; Mishra and McConaughy 1999) and the…”
Creativity, self-efficacy, and small-firm performance: the mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation (2015, result): “In our research, the dimensions vary independently representing a unique aspect of the EO construct, which has consistently been the case in empirical studies (Lumpkin and Dess 2001; Merz and Sauber 1995; Naldi et al. 2007).”
A farewell to the business: Championing exit and continuity in entrepreneurial family firms (2010, background): “This family firm has been consistently characterized by an entrepreneurial orientation (Naldi et al. 2007), the desire for growth and wealth creation, and a willingness to pursue unconventional means to achieve this – features required by the extended definitions of family firms (Chua, Chrisman, and”
The relationship between innovation, knowledge, and performance in family and non-family firms: an analysis of SMEs (2013, background): “However, recent research has disputed these findings and acknowledged that family firms act boldly and exhibit innovative and entrepreneurial tendencies (Naldi et al. 2007; Zahra 2005).”
Investigating environmental sustainability in small family-owned businesses: Integration of religiosity, ethical judgment, and theory of planned behavior (2021, background): “There are notable differences in the management of family- and nonfamily-owned businesses (Miller et al., 2013; Naldi et al., 2007); the former is defined by characteristics such as the involvement of family members in strategic and tactical decision-making, overlapping activities between the…”
Innovativeness in family firms: a family influence perspective (2010, methodology): “However, recently a more complex view of family firms and their propensity toward risk has been revealed (e.g., Go ´mez-Mejia et al. 2007; Naldi et al. 2007; Zahra 2005).”