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Guest editorial A commentary on family business entrepreneurial developments
Panikkos Zata Poutziouris, Lloyd Steier, Kosmas X. SmyrniosIntroduces the special issue which focuses on family business entrepreneurial developments. Outlines the articles in the issue which not only increase our repository of family…
Entrepreneurial aspirations among family business owners: An analysis of ethnic business owners in the UK
Anuradha BasuThis paper contributes to our understanding of the intersection between entrepreneurship and family businesses by examining the business aspirations of immigrant entrepreneurs…
“Interpreneurship” Organisational (re)emergence and entrepreneurial development in a second‐generation family firm
Denise FletcherAlthough there has been some attention to how notions of entrepreneurship and family intersect in the life of family businesses, analysis of these issues in relation to…
Employee involvement in family and non‐family‐owned businesses in Great Britain
Richard I.D. Harris, Renee S. Reid, Rodney McAdamNationally representative data on family businesses is available in the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey, alongside comparable information for other types of firms. We use…
The relationship between succession issues and business performance: Evidence from UK family SMEs
Yong Wang, David Watkins, Neil Harris, Keith SpicerResearchers widely argue that the most significant difference between family controlled and non‐family business concerns the way in which executive succession occurs, and more…
Ownership structure, board composition and entrepreneurship: Evidence from family firms and venture‐capital‐backed firms
Olof Brunninge, Mattias NordqvistThe purpose of this article is to investigate how ownership structure, especially family and/or venture‐capital involvement, as well as entrepreneurial activities, defined as…
The views of UK family business owners on flotation
Panikkos Poutziouris, Yong WangThis empirical research paper draws evidence from a database of UK independent private companies (n=250) and reports on the financial aspirations of owner‐managers of family firms…
Patterns in strategy formation in a family firm
A.B. Ibrahim, J. McGuire, K. Soufani, P. PoutziourisDespite the fact that about 90 percent of all the businesses in the US and Canada are family‐owned and operated, very little research has been undertaken on how strategy is shaped…
Governance in Spanish family business
K.C. Suáre, D.J. Santana‐MartínThis explorative research paper illuminates the governance systems in Spanish family businesses, and evaluates the extent to which they pursue good governance practise both in the…
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