Entrepreneurship and family business /

Volume 12 will consider the timely issue of entrepreneurship and family business. Papers consider the issues, problems, contexts, or processes that make a family firm more entrepreneurial. A representative, but by no means exhaustive, listing of relevant topics includes: the emergence and growth of...

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Corporate Author: Emerald Publishing Group
Other Authors: Stewart, Alex, 1950-, Lumpkin, G. T., Katz, Jerome A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley : Emerald, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Advances in entrepreneurship, firm emergence and growth ; v. 12.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Volume 12 will consider the timely issue of entrepreneurship and family business. Papers consider the issues, problems, contexts, or processes that make a family firm more entrepreneurial. A representative, but by no means exhaustive, listing of relevant topics includes: the emergence and growth of family businesses; founding conditions unique to family firms; maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit of the founding generation; the role of family in corporate entrepreneurship; the use of entrepreneurial policies, practices and strategies by family firms; outcomes attributable to differences between more and less entrepreneurial family firms; family firm versus non-family firm approaches to entrepreneurial decision making; entrepreneurial characteristics and practices across the generations of a family firm; entrepreneurship as an avenue to strategically renew family firms; the allocation of family-based resources to entrepreneurial endeavors.
Item Description:Description based on print version record.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxv, 400 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780857240989 (electronic bk.) :
0857240986 (electronic bk.) :
ISSN:1074-7540 ;