Copreneurs: An Exploration and Comparison to Other Family Businesses

By Margaret A. Fitzgerald, Glenn Muske. 2002

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The Varying Effects of Family Relationships in Entrepreneurial Teams (2013, background): “In the end, the foundational logic of social identity theory is that each of the multiple identities assumed by a social actor are socially constructed, and that the bridge from identity to action is based on the behavioral expectations associated with a given role (Fiske & Taylor, 1991).”
Evolutionary Psychology and Family Business: A New Synthesis for Theory, Research, and Practice (2008, background): “In family firms, divorce and conflict between husband and wife “copreneurs” is a common hazard (Danes & Olson, 2003; Fitzgerald & Muske, 2002), as is the split between family branches in mature firms (Foley & Powell, 1997; Gersick et al., 1997).”
Handbook of Consumer Finance Research (2008, background): “closely related to the concept of copreneurs referring to business-owning couples having shared goals, dreams, and ideals (Fitzgerald & Muske, 2002 ).”
Living the Dream? Assessing the “Entrepreneurship as Emancipation” Perspective in a Developed Region (2016, background): “Second, given that running a firm jointly as a couple—i.e., having one’s spouse or marital-like partner as a “copreneur”—constitutes a less common (Fitzgerald & Muske, 2002) and thus more unusual organizational structure, we also included a dummy variable to capture whether the respondent was…”