Family firm research: sketching a research field
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in: International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, Jahrgang 13, Nr. 1, 02.2011, S. 32-47.
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T1 - Family firm research: sketching a research field
AU - Kraus, Sascha
AU - Harms, Rainer
AU - Fink, Matthias
PY - 2011/2
Y1 - 2011/2
N2 - Due to the importance of family firms for the economy, researchers have begun to embrace family firms as a research object. This article seeks to summarise and to structure family firm research based on an extensive survey of the literature. Important research foundations such as the definition of family firms, a theoretical foundation in the resource based view and in entrepreneurship and research topics such as performance differences of family firms, their goal structure, psychological ownership and business succession are outlined and discussed.
AB - Due to the importance of family firms for the economy, researchers have begun to embrace family firms as a research object. This article seeks to summarise and to structure family firm research based on an extensive survey of the literature. Important research foundations such as the definition of family firms, a theoretical foundation in the resource based view and in entrepreneurship and research topics such as performance differences of family firms, their goal structure, psychological ownership and business succession are outlined and discussed.
KW - Entrepreneurship
KW - Entrepreneurship
KW - Familiness
KW - Family firms
KW - Ownership
KW - RBV
KW - Resource-based view
KW - SME
KW - Succession
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79751470411&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1504/IJEIM.2011.038446
DO - 10.1504/IJEIM.2011.038446
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 13
SP - 32
EP - 47
JO - International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
JF - International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
SN - 1368-275X
IS - 1
ER -