Entrepreneurial Risk Taking in Family Firms

By Shaker A. Zahra. 2005

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

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Family Business Succession and Its Impact on Financial Structure and Performance (2010, background): “Zahra (2005) and Fernández and Nieto (2005), for example, find that when new generations of family members become actively involved in the company, wealth increase and strategic renewal become more important.”
Driving factors of innovation in family and non-family SMEs (2018, background): “According to Zahra (2005), for example, family firms where multiple generations are involved in the management tend to be more innovative.”
The Resilient Family Firm: Stakeholder Outcomes and Institutional Effects (2015, background): “…Number 3 ay 2015M long-term horizon is manifested in aspects such as CEO tenure, which tends to be up to three times longer in FCFs than in N-FCFs (Zahra, 2005), and incentives, where FCF CEO compensation in family firms is less likely to be linked to short-term earnings (Ali, Chen, &…”
Entrepreneurial Orientation, Risk Taking, and Performance in Family Firms (2007, background): “Research on entrepreneurship in family firms, including entrepreneurial orientation and the role of risk taking, is increasing but still scarce (Habbershon & Pistrui, 2002; Zahra, 2005; Zahra, Hayton, & Salvato, 2004).”
Entrepreneurial families and family firms (2010, background): “…than there is on the family’s influence on and role in opportunity recognition and start-up processes (e.g. Hall, Melin, and Nordqvist 2001; Kellermanns and Eddleston 2006; Naldi et al. 2007; Nordqvist, Habbershon, and Melin 2008; Salvato 2004; Zahra 2005; Zahra, Hayton, and Salvato 2004).”
The Influence of Ownership Structure and Board Strategic Involvement on International Sales: The Moderating Effect of Family Involvement (2013, background): “In particular, larger family businesses have well-established connections within and outside their industries, making it possible for them to enter international markets and intensify international entrepreneurial activities (Zahra, 2005).”
The Influence of Top Management Teams in the Strategic Orientation and Performance of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (2009, neutral): “Furthermore, familiarity limits the professionalization of management, and thus may become a barrier to successful incorporation of talented non-family managers (Zahra, 2005).”
A Study of the Relationships Between Generation, Market Orientation, and Innovation in Family Firms (2011, background): “Additionally, previous research indicates a relationship between the generation in control and innovation (Litz & Kleysen, 2001; Zahra, 2005).”
The internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises: the effect of family management, human capital and foreign ownership (2010, background): “management support risk taking (Aldrich and Cliff, 2003; Zahra, 2005 ).”
Entrepreneurial orientation and innovation in family SMEs: Unveiling the (actual) impact of the Board of Directors (2018, result): “Consistent with prior research (e.g., Kellermanns et al., 2008; Zahra, 2005), we opted for a single respondent survey to address the difficulties in gaining access to primary data on BoDs in private firms (e.g., Daily et al., 2003; Minichilli et al., 2009), which is common in research surveying key…”
Riding the waves of family firm internationalization: A systematic literature review, integrative framework, and research agenda (2020, neutral): “…as an antecedent of internationalization, relying on cross-sectional databases, and examining the international scale – the extent to which a firm’s activities rely on foreign markets (George, Wiklund, & Zahra, 2005) – mostly in terms of intensity of foreign sales (e.g. Davis & Harveston, 2000).”