Service content and the internationalization of young ventures:
an empirical test.
Young ventures are becoming increasingly sophisticated about
internationalizing their firms. However, this article suggests that
young ventures may be overlooking the influence of service content . . .
The status of women in corporate governance in high-growth,
high-potential firms.(Survey)
Surveys of the largest U.S. corporations routinely demonstrate that
the role of women in corporate governance is acutely limited. In this
research we examine how high-growth entrepreneurial sectors . . .
Strategic use of corporate venturing.
Corporate venturing (CV) is said to be most productive as a path to
superior corporate performance when practiced in a strategic manner.
Unfortunately, considerable ambiguity exists concerning what . . .
Community-led social venture creation.
The addition of new enterprises to the economy has long been
considered essential to economic growth. The process of venture creation
in the private sector has been heavily researched and . . .
The impact of virtual embeddedness on new venture survival:
overcoming the liabilities of newness.(1)
In this article, we examine the impact of virtual embeddedness--the
establishment of interorganizational connections through the use of
electronic technologies--on the likelihood of new venture . . .
If theories of family enterprise really do matter, so does change
in management education.
This article focuses on family business as an emerging field within
management studies. Drawing on a purposive sample of 10 articles
presented at a recent academic conference as illustrative of . . .
Commentary: a framework for managing the familiness and agency
advantages in family firms.
This article uses a family-influenced, international, new venture
creation case as a platform for addressing the importance of context
when exploring entrepreneurship in start-up and growth . . .
Altruism and agency in the family firm: exploring the role of
family, kinship, and ethnicity.
This article examines the relationship between altruism and agency
costs in family business through an in-depth case study of a family
firm. We found that altruism reduced agency costs in the early . . .
Commentary: "are we family and are we treated as family?
Nonfamily employees' perceptions of justice in the family
firm": it all
Introduction
"Are we family and are we treated as family ..." has
addressed an understudied yet important aspect of family-owned and
managed firms: the management of the nonfamily human . . .
Are we family and are we treated as family? Nonfamily
employees' perceptions of justice in the family firm.
The importance of justice perceptions in fostering positive job
attitudes and value-creating behaviors in organizations is well
established in the literature. Despite this, only a handful of . . .
The complicating factor of life cycles in corporate
venturing.
Does family matter in corporate venturing? Converting the question,
can a family firm survive without corporate venturing? Life cycle theory
contends that it is normal for an organization to form, . . .
Corporate entrepreneurship in family firms: a family
perspective.
Entrepreneurship has been recognized as an important factor
contributing to firm success. Despite the potential benefit of corporate
entrepreneurship to sustain the family firm across . . .
Commentary: "family firms and social responsibility:
preliminary evidence from the S&P 500".
This commentary focuses on four themes: (1) empirical relevance of
corporate social responsibility (CSR) in family firms; (2) complementary
theoretical explanations to CSR behavior in family firms; . . .
Family firms and social responsibility: preliminary evidence from
the S&P 500.
Little is known about the impact of family ownership and management
on corporate social performance. Some scholars have suggested that
family firms are not likely to act in a socially responsible . . .
How family firms solve intra-family agency problems using
interlocking directorates: an extension.
This commentary makes two contributions to a better understanding
of interlocking directorates in family firms. First, we compare agency
costs in family and nonfamily firms. Second, we present . . .
Interorganizational familiness: how family firms use interlocking
directorates to build community-level social capital (1).
We draw on the concept of community-level social capital and apply
it to the situation of a family-controlled public corporation. While
traditional agency theory argues that agency costs are . . .
Family businesses can out-compete: as long as they are willing to
question the chosen path.
This commentary extends the discussion of whether CEO tenure will
lead to strategies that have a longer-term orientation by examining the
moderating role of task conflict which may either foster . . .
Why do some family businesses out-compete? Governance, long-term
orientations, and sustainable capability.
This article seeks to link the domains of corporate governance,
investment policies, competitive asymmetries, and sustainable
capabilities. Conditions such as concentrated ownership, . . .
Personalism, particularism, and the competitive behaviors and
advantages of family firms: an introduction.
Fundamental assumptions of any theory of the family firm are that
family firms will behave in ways that differ from nonfamily firms, and
that the behaviors of family firms will also exhibit . . .
What lies beneath? The experiential essence of entrepreneurial
thinking.
Cognitive developmental psychology and constructivism offer
possibilities for the future of entrepreneurial cognition research to
explore: (1) deeply seated beliefs and belief structures that . . .
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