Informal Family Business in Africa

By Susanna Khavul, Garry D. Bruton, E. Wood. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Bringing Africa In: Promising Directions for Management Research (2016, background): “Yet, despite increasing research on social capital, family firms, and entrepreneurship research in general, there is still considerable scope for Africa to receive greater attention as a context for exploring these dynamics (Bruton, Ahlstrom, & Obloj, 2008; Khavul et al., 2009).”
Planned Luck: How Incubators Can Facilitate Serendipity for Nascent Entrepreneurs Through Fostering Network Embeddedness (2020, methodology): “…a lack of novel or diverse information, lock- in in cohesive networks, or psychological pressure (di Falco & Bulte, 2011; Gedajlovic et al., 2013; Khavul et al., 2009; Khayesi & George, 2011), pointing to the importance of examining how nascent entrepreneurs are—and become—beneficially embedded…”
Entrepreneurship and Family Firm Research: A Bibliometric Analysis of An Emerging Field* (2016, background): “…one hand, studies that analyze the influence that family issues, such as Chinese “familism” (Au and Kwan 2009) or the African extended family concept (Khavul, Bruton, and Wood 2009; Robson and Obeng 2008; Smith 2009) may have on the creation and development of businesses in the south and east of…”
Chinese Participation in Ghana's Informal Gold Mining Economy: Drivers, Implications and Clarifications (2014, result): “…by small groups, and are similar in composition to the scores of ‘informal microenterprises’ now found scattered across the region which flourish outside of regulatory frameworks because ‘of the administrative hurdles to properly register and license a business’ (Khavul et al., 2009, p. 1222).”
Creating the Future Together: Toward a Framework for Research Synthesis in Entrepreneurship (2014, background): “In addition, observations in the African context suggest strong family ties also bring many social obligations with them, which may hinder opportunity exploitation; being exposed to a diversity of strong community ties can counterbalance this effect (Khavul et al., 2009).”
Family Involvement in the Firm, Family‐to‐Business Support, and Entrepreneurial Outcomes: An Exploration** (2017, background): “…the variable of family involvement in the firm (i.e., whether a firm represents a family firm or not) according to two types of family involvement, ownership of the firm and the presence of family members as employees (Gundry and Welsch 1994; Khavul et al. 2009; Litz 1995; Miller et al. 2008).”
The Family's Financial Support as a “Poisoned Gift”: A Family Embeddedness Perspective on Entrepreneurial Intentions (2017, background): “This complements existing findings that strong family ties can inhibit entrepreneurial action and cognition (Au and Kwan 2009; Khavul, Bruton, and Wood 2009; Stewart 2003) and further highlights the importance of the family context when the embedded nature of entrepreneurial processes is studied…”
Crowdfunding in a Prosocial Microlending Environment: Examining the Role of Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Cues (2015, background): “, the entrepreneur) in terms of how entrepreneurs’ demands for microloans respond to fluctuations in lender interest rates (Karlan & Zinman, 2008); the role of group identity, sanctions, and reciprocity in facilitating group cooperation within microcredit groups (Anthony, 2005); and how network ties”