This 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.
1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Entrepreneurshipand Innovation in Family Firms 1Sascha Kraus, Thomas Clauss and Andreas KallmuenzerPART I NOVEL THEORETICAL ADVANCEMENTSAND PERSPECTIVES ON THE FIELDS OFENTREPRENEURSHIP AND/OR INNOVATION INFAMILY FIRM RESEARCH2 Mapping the intellectual structure of family firm research andproposing a research agenda 14Markus Wulff, Victor Tiberius and Raj V. Mahto3 State of research on family businesses and the corporate brand:current findings, future fields of research and approaches tostrategic use 38Giuseppe Sorrentino, Mario Situm and Stefan Märk4 Disruptive innovation in family firms: a systematic literature review 60Josef Schindler5 Institutional influences on succession intentions: an extensionof the theory of planned behavior 88Simon Jebsen and Britta Boyd6 Family business resilience: a multilevel process approach 107Javier Monllor, Doaa Althalathini and Shelley Beck7 A new intersection in family business: causation, effectuationand entrepreneurial bricolage approaches 127Mihaela Mikić, Tin Horvatinović and Marina Dabić8 Introduction to corporate entrepreneurship in family firms:overview and current issues 145Vanessa Weimann, Maike Gerken and Marcel HülsbeckPART II CURRENT STATE-OF-THE-ART RESEARCH INENTREPRENEURSHIP AND/OR INNOVATION INFAMILY FIRMS9 Resilient businesses in times of crisis: pandemic effects oncompetence strategies in rural family SMEs 166Kristin Sabel, Cecilia Dalborg and Yvonne von Friedrichs10 Role of boards of directors of family SMEs in balancingtradition and innovation 192Paolo Roffia and Stefania Moracchiato11 New concepts for traditional family-run inns 215Alexander Plaikner, Barbara Weiskopf, Katharina Weiskopf andMarco Haid12 Product and process innovation activities of family firms incomparison to non-family firms 239Izabella Steinerowska-Streb and Teresa Kraśnicka13 Introducing ownership innovation as an approach to studyfamily firms’ ownership practices 261Suvi Konsti-Laakso, Marita Rautiainen, Timo Pihkala andNaveed Akhter14 (Social) innovation as a way out of a crisis? How small familyfirms become innovative 279Börje Boers15 Analysis of the internationalization of the family businessfrom the approach of entrepreneurial orientation 298Felipe Hernández-Perlines and Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano16 International entrepreneurship of family firms from CentralEurope: the example of Poland 324Krzysztof Wach, Agnieszka Głodowska and Marek Maciejewski17 Family businesses’ business networks in the VUCA world 345Katie Hyslop, Dietmar Roessl and Isabella HatakPART III NEW AND ESTABLISHED RESEARCH METHODSIN ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INNOVATION ANDFAMILY FIRM RESEARCH18 Patent data and how it can be matched to (family) firm data:an example and a guideline 368Tom Willeke, Jörn Block, Matthias Johann, Darius Lambrecht,Holger Steinmetz and Issah Wunnam19 Serious games to study the management of paradoxes infamily firms: Introducing a research agenda 389Clemens Krüger, Laura Bechthold and Reinhard Prügl20 How and when do family businesses support entrepreneurship?An exploratory analysis on the relationship among familyinfluence and entrepreneurial opportunities in family firms 412Álvaro Rojas, Daniel Lorenzo and Pedro Núñez-Cacho21 A case study of an emergent, family owned and operatedprivate tour company 437Daniel M. Spencer and Lenna V. ShulgaIndex 461.
