The pervasive effects of family on entrepreneurship: toward a family embeddedness perspective

By Howard E. Aldrich, Jennifer E. Cliff. 2003

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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A Configurational Approach of the Relationship Between Entrepreneurial Orientation and Growth of Family Firms (2010, background): “On one hand, specific traits of family firms prompt them to develop entrepreneurial behavior (Aldrich & Cliff, 2003).”
The Adolescence of Family Firm Research (2012, positive): “Family firms represent a significant social and economic institution in both emerging and advanced economies and account for approximately 90% of all firms worldwide (Aldrich & Cliff, 2003).”
Imprinting by Design: The Microfoundations of Entrepreneurial Adaptation (2014, background): “Indeed, founding an entrepreneurial firm can be viewed as a life choice, not simply a career option (Aldrich & Cliff, 2003; Sarasvathy, 2001).”
Entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Sector: A Literature Review and Future Research Opportunities (2018, background): “This makes families the most common type of entrepreneurial teams (Aldrich & Cliff, 2003; Nordqvist & Melin, 2010) where family members offer resources to the new firm, such as labor, advice, funds, or moral support (Dyer, 2006).”
A configurational analysis of the antecedents of entrepreneurial orientation (2017, background): “…as a prominent feature of entrepreneur's social context, given the importance of family ties in influencing the entrepreneurial experience (Aldrich & Cliff, 2003; Arregle, Batjargal, Hitt, Webb, & Tsui, 2013; Miller, Le Breton-Miller, & Lester, 2011), and we differentiate between three…”
Entrepreneurial potential: The role of human and cultural capitals (2014, background): “This explicit articulation of cultural capital brings to the fore the family embeddedness of entrepreneurial human capital (Aldrich and Cliff, 2003) and offers a number of important implications for research with regard to wider social structures that support entrepreneurial activity.”