From Longevity of Firms to Transgenerational Entrepreneurship of Families

By Thomas M. Zellweger, Robert S. Nason, Mattias Nordqvist. 2012

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

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The Ability and Willingness Paradox in Family Firm Innovation (2015, background): “…firms as well as among family firms with respect to the organizational goals pursued, risk taking, and investment horizon (Gómez-Mejía et al., 2007; Chrisman et al., 2012; Zellweger, 2007; Zellweger, Nason, and Nordqvist, 2012), all of which are important determinants of innovation activities.”
Sustaining the Family Business With Minimal Financial Rewards (2015, background): “Recent work by Zellweger et al. (2012) also investigates sustainability of family businesses by focusing on how families sustain entrepreneurial approaches over multiple generations; they found that transgenerational sustainability intentions of the family were a key factor.”
Driving factors of innovation in family and non-family SMEs (2018, background): “…owns at least 50% of shares and at least one family member is part of the management team (European Commission 2009; see also Classen et al. 2014; Chua et al. 1999; Eddleston and Kellermanns 2007; Peng and Jiang 2010; Posch andWiedenegger 2014;Westhead and Cowling 1998; Zellweger et al. 2012a, b).”
Exogenous shocks and the adaptive capacity of family firms: exploring behavioral changes and digital technologies in the COVID‐19 pandemic (2021, background): “Although we know that family firms focus on survival due to their transgenerational intentions (Zellweger et al., 2012), we lack knowledge on how they ensure survival in times of crisis that threaten firm survival.”
The Family's Financial Support as a “Poisoned Gift”: A Family Embeddedness Perspective on Entrepreneurial Intentions (2017, background): “Also, we address scholars in the field of transgenerational entrepreneurship in business families (e.g., Laspita et al. 2012; Zellweger, Nason, and Nordqvist 2012) as we indicate that intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship could be impeded by the potential provision JOURNAL OF SMALL…”
Article Commentary: Family, Wealth, and Governance: An Agency Account (2015, background): “For instance, among U.S. families in business, Zellweger, Nason, and Nordqvist (2012) show that only 10% of the families in their sample control a single firm and that on average these families control more than three firms.”