The Role of Family Influence in Firms’ Strategic Responses to Threat of Imitation

By David G. Sirmon, J. Arrégle, Michael A. Hitt, Justin W. Webb. 2008

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

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Doing More with Less: Innovation Input and Output in Family Firms (2016, unknown): “…sum of R&D expenditures and capital expenditures (Anderson et al., 2012), (4) the ratio of the number of R&D-focused employees to total employees (Sirmon, Arregle, Hitt, & Webb, 2008), (5) the ratio of exter-nal expenses for R&D to total sales (also referred to as external technology acquisition…”
The relationship between innovation, knowledge, and performance in family and non-family firms: an analysis of SMEs (2013, background): “As a simple distinction between family and non-family may be insufficient to capture the effects of performance (Sirmon et al. 2008), this research attempts to position knowledge from a macroperspective and posits that it has a positive relationship with innovation and firm performance: Hypothesis…”
Understanding the Innovation Behavior of Family Firms* (2015, background): “Moreover, the decision to innovate is coherent with the survival instinct and classic concern of family-owned firms for long-term continuity (Sirmon et al. 2008).”
Innovation and Family Ownership: Empirical Evidence from India (2014, methodology): “However, using survey data collected by Banque de France, Sirmon et al. (2008) show that French family firms maintain higher investment in R&D than non-family firms, which leads to higher innovation performance, but the innovation performance decreases as the level of ownership held by families incr”
Innovativeness in family firms: a family influence perspective (2010, background): “Indeed, examples of how the definitions of family firms affect the strengths of the relationships can be easily found in the literature (Sirmon et al. 2008; Villalonga and Amit 2006).”
The role of family ownership in international entrepreneurship: exploring nonlinear effects (2012, background): “For instance, Sirmon and colleagues found that businesses where a family had substantial (but not unilateral) ownership and managerial presence in the firm maintained higher levels of internationalization when they faced a threat of imitation and, hence, enjoyed higher performance (Sirmon et al. 200”
Why is Family Firms’ Internationalization Unique? A Meta–Analysis (2017, background): “FCFs have unique difficulties accessing these resources compared to other firms due to their stronger inherent family business resource restrictions (Sirmon et al., 2008).”