Entrepreneurial families and family firms

By Mattias Nordqvist, L. Melin. 2010

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Implications of Intra-Family and External Ownership Transfer of Family Firms: Short-Term and Long-Term Performance Differences (2011, background): “The acquisition of existing businesses as a route to entrepreneurship is a topic that generally has been unfortunately overlooked in the prior literature (Nordqvist and Melin, 2010; Parker and Van Praag, 2011).”
Entrepreneurial orientation in family firms: the case of the hospitality industry (2018, background): “…findings in the literature, which also critically discuss these aspects in regard to its influence on performance (Deephouse & Jaskiewicz, 2013; Gómez-Mejı́a et al., 2007; Lumpkin et al., 2010; Nordqvist & Melin, 2010; Zellweger, Kellermanns, Eddleston, & Memili, 2012; Zellweger & Sieger, 2012).”
The Temporal Evolution of Proactiveness in Family Firms (2013, background): “…external environment (Lumpkin & Dess, 2001), is an important trait of family firms’ entrepreneurial behavior (Naldi, Nordqvist, Sjöberg, & Wiklund, 2007; Nordqvist & Melin, 2010) and a key source of sustained growth and performance for many family firms (e.g., Casillas, Moreno, & Barbero, 2010).”
From Longevity of Firms to Transgenerational Entrepreneurship of Families (2012, background): “Families who run firms are often confronted with the management of paradoxes that emanate from the overlap of family and business systems (Nordqvist & Melin, 2010; Smith & Lewis, 2011; Tagiuri & Davis, 1996), such as balancing the wish for stability and continuity inherent in the family system and…”
Value Is in the Eye of the Owner (2012, background): “Such a perspective of treating a family as a unitary actor with a common view and sentiment toward ownership in the firm is in line with a common practice among social scientists to attribute properties and opinions of an individual to those of a group (Nordqvist & Melin, 2010).”
Entrepreneurship and Family Firm Research: A Bibliometric Analysis of An Emerging Field* (2016, background): “…and Melin (2010), the enterprising family means the “family as an institution or social structure, which can both help and hinder business activity” (Nordqvist and Melin 2010), whereas the family firm is “a type of organization or organizational context, with certain characteristics that may…”
Relational Competence-Based Knowledge Transfer Within Intrafamily Succession (2015, background): “Especially in family firms, which represent 80% to 95% of all businesses in most capitalist countries (Nordqvist & Melin, 2010), preserving the predecessor’s knowledge can determine the success of the multistage succession process (Mazzola, Marchisio, & Astrachan, 2008), which is defined as the…”
Entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Sector: A Literature Review and Future Research Opportunities (2018, background): “This makes families the most common type of entrepreneurial teams (Aldrich & Cliff, 2003; Nordqvist & Melin, 2010) where family members offer resources to the new firm, such as labor, advice, funds, or moral support (Dyer, 2006).”
Regional influences on the prevalence of family versus non-family start-ups (2014, neutral): “The high concentration of both customers and other companies in urban areas implies that start-ups can draw on a labor force with a diverse skill-set, access a range of specialized resources, and more easily obtain start-up capital (Gnyawali and Fogel, 1994; Pe'er et al., 2006).”
Resource orchestration in family firms: investigating how entrepreneurial orientation, generational involvement, and participative strategy affect performance (2011, methodology): “…our attention on Miller’s original conceptualization of EO, widely used in studies of both family fi rms (e.g., Casillas et al., 2010; Chirico and Nordqvist, 2010; Cruz and Nordqvist, forthcoming; Kellermanns and Eddleston, 2006) and nonfamily fi rms (e.g., Covin et al., 2006; De Clercq, Dimov,…”
In the Horns of the Dilemma: Socioemotional Wealth, Financial Wealth, and Acquisitions in Family Firms (2018, background): “…that even within a dominant coalition (eventually even with the dominant family principal), tension and bargaining exist among competing goals and performance indicators, with the attention focus and preferences changing depending on circumstances (Audia & Brion, 2007; Nordqvist & Melin, 2010).”
Article Commentary: Family, Wealth, and Governance: An Agency Account (2015, background): “…with entrepreneurship in family businesses has focused on the creation of wealth by families (e.g., Habbershon & Pistrui, 2002; Hoy & Sharma, 2009; Nordqvist & Melin, 2010), we explore the preservation and, in part, the break-up and decline of family wealth (Chandler, 1977; Franks et al., 2012).”