Article Commentary: To Nurture or Groom? The Parent–Founder Succession Dilemma

By Jeffery S. McMullen, Benjamin J. Warnick. 2015

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

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Citations in the corpus

Family Business Succession: What’s Motivation Got to Do With It? (2019, background): “…Handler, 1992; Zellweger, Sieger, & Halter, 2011, for exceptions); none of these studies focused on motivational theories, and only one publication has proposed, but not tested, how sources of motivation, according to SDT, are likely to influence succession outcomes (McMullen & Warnick, 2015).”
Perceived Parental Behaviors and Next-Generation Engagement in Family Firms: A Social Cognitive Perspective (2018, background): “This occurs as it does not permit the child to develop as an individual differently from the parent (Barber, 2002), and is thus more likely to lead to grooming in a selfish manipulative way, rather than selfless transparent nurturing of next-generation members (McMullen and Warnick, 2015).”
Category membership, identity control, and the reevaluation of prosocial opportunities (2017, background): “While these identities can be integrated with new venture activities to align the entrepreneur's intrinsic motivation with external incentives (McMullen and Warnick, 2015), tensions are often present for entrepreneurs as they evaluate the opportunities they aim to pursue.”
Should We Require Every New Venture to Be a Hybrid Organization (2016, background): “…such as in the case of family firms created to ensure the socio-emotional wealth of the family (Gomez-Mejia et al., 2007) or lifestyle businesses created to provide the founder intrinsic motivation or autonomy in income generating activities that he finds interesting (McMullen and Warnick, 2015).”
Governance Mechanisms and Family Firms (2018, background): “Self-determination theory suggests that individual motivation is influenced by the extent to which needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness are satisfied (Deci, Olafsen, & Ryan, 2017; McMullen & Warnick, 2015).”