The Temporal Evolution of Proactiveness in Family Firms

By Alfredo De Massis, J. Kotlar, Lucia Naldi. Family Business Review, 2013

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We extend prior work on proactiveness in family firms by examining the relationship between firm age and proactiveness. Specifically, we propose an S-shaped effect of aging of family firms on proactiveness. Additionally, we provide a contingency perspective by considering the moderating role of the dispersion of managerial control among family members. Using a sample of Swiss family firms, we find that proactiveness first declines, then increases, and finally decreases again as the family firm ages, and that this relationship is steeper when the managerial control is dispersed among multiple family members.

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

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The impact of small- and medium-sized family firms on economic growth (2015, result): “Similarly, other work indicates that the proactive attitude of family firms changes over time as a function of firm age (De Massis et al. 2014).”
Tax avoidance, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility: The case of the Egyptian capital market (2020, background): “Several recent studies focused on social responsibility issues in family J o u r n a P r e p r o o firms (Campopiano & De Massis, 2015; De Massis et al., 2014).”
Searching for resilience: the impact of employee-level and entrepreneur-level resilience on firm performance in small family firms (2020, unknown): “4.1 Context of analysis: small family firms Family firms have notably attracted attention in the last decades due to their specific and unique characteristics (De Massis et al. 2008; De Massis et al. 2014).”