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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Research Handbook offers new insights into how family businesses use entrepreneurship and innovation to address global challenges and ensure their survival and growth across generations.
Using expertise from leading scholars around the world, this Handbook takes an international perspective and explores different national contexts and cultures. Key themes include theoretical advances and perspectives in entrepreneurship and innovation in family firms, current state-of-the-art research in entrepreneurship and innovation in family firms, and new and established research methods in entrepreneurship, innovation, and family firm research. Covering important concepts, including internationalization, governance, and resilience, this Research Handbook lays out a highly topical selection of advances in research on entrepreneurship and innovation in family firms.
Examining the major overarching themes of theory, empirics and methods, this Research Handbook will be a valuable resource for scholars and advanced students of entrepreneurship, family business, organizational innovation, and organization studies. It will also be useful for business leaders and practitioners in these areas.
Trade Review‘The continuity of family firms is dependent in part in the ability of business families to continue their entrepreneurial spirit and to promote innovation within the organization. The Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Family Firms
provides a really good overview of the many components of innovation and entrepreneurship in family firms. These include theoretical approaches that can enrich our understanding, relevant areas of research, and important methodological approaches. This Handbook can help those who are starting their journey in the field and those that have been part of the field for a long time to better understand entrepreneurship and innovation.’ -- Isabel C. Botero, University of Louisville, US
‘In an increasingly uncertain and volatile environment, many family businesses survive for decades and even centuries. This book offers the main keys to this long-term success, analyzing the role of entrepreneurship and innovation. An essential book to understand the future of the family business in new times.’ -- José C. Casillas, University of Seville, Spain
Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Family Firms 1 Sascha Kraus, Thomas Clauss and Andreas Kallmuenzer PART I NOVEL THEORETICAL ADVANCEMENTS AND PERSPECTIVES ON THE FIELDS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND/OR INNOVATION IN FAMILY FIRM RESEARCH 2 Mapping the intellectual structure of family firm research and proposing a research agenda 14 Markus Wulff, Victor Tiberius and Raj V. Mahto 3 State of research on family businesses and the corporate brand: current findings, future fields of research and approaches to strategic use 38 Giuseppe Sorrentino, Mario Situm and Stefan Märk 4 Disruptive innovation in family firms: a systematic literature review 60 Josef Schindler 5 Institutional influences on succession intentions: an extension of the theory of planned behavior 88 Simon Jebsen and Britta Boyd 6 Family business resilience: a multilevel process approach 107 Javier Monllor, Doaa Althalathini and Shelley Beck 7 A new intersection in family business: causation, effectuation and entrepreneurial bricolage approaches 127 Mihaela Mikić, Tin Horvatinović and Marina Dabić 8 Introduction to corporate entrepreneurship in family firms: overview and current issues 145 Vanessa Weimann, Maike Gerken and Marcel Hülsbeck PART II CURRENT STATE-OF-THE-ART RESEARCH IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND/OR INNOVATION IN FAMILY FIRMS 9 Resilient businesses in times of crisis: pandemic effects on competence strategies in rural family SMEs 166 Kristin Sabel, Cecilia Dalborg and Yvonne von Friedrichs 10 Role of boards of directors of family SMEs in balancing tradition and innovation 192 Paolo Roffia and Stefania Moracchiato 11 New concepts for traditional family-run inns 215 Alexander Plaikner, Barbara Weiskopf, Katharina Weiskopf and Marco Haid 12 Product and process innovation activities of family firms in comparison to non-family firms 239 Izabella Steinerowska-Streb and Teresa Kraśnicka 13 Introducing ownership innovation as an approach to study family firms’ ownership practices 261 Suvi Konsti-Laakso, Marita Rautiainen, Timo Pihkala and Naveed Akhter 14 (Social) innovation as a way out of a crisis? How small family firms become innovative 279 Börje Boers 15 Analysis of the internationalization of the family business from the approach of entrepreneurial orientation 298 Felipe Hernández-Perlines and Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano 16 International entrepreneurship of family firms from Central Europe: the example of Poland 324 Krzysztof Wach, Agnieszka Głodowska and Marek Maciejewski 17 Family businesses’ business networks in the VUCA world 345 Katie Hyslop, Dietmar Roessl and Isabella Hatak PART III NEW AND ESTABLISHED RESEARCH METHODS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INNOVATION AND FAMILY FIRM RESEARCH 18 Patent data and how it can be matched to (family) firm data: an example and a guideline 368 Tom Willeke, Jörn Block, Matthias Johann, Darius Lambrecht, Holger Steinmetz and Issah Wunnam 19 Serious games to study the management of paradoxes in family firms: Introducing a research agenda 389 Clemens Krüger, Laura Bechthold and Reinhard Prügl 20 How and when do family businesses support entrepreneurship? An exploratory analysis on the relationship among family influence and entrepreneurial opportunities in family firms 412 Álvaro Rojas, Daniel Lorenzo and Pedro Núñez-Cacho 21 A case study of an emergent, family owned and operated private tour company 437 Daniel M. Spencer and Lenna V. Shulga Index 461
