Entrepreneurship and family business

• Other Authors: Stewart, Alex, 1950-, Lumpkin, G. T., Katz, Jerome A.
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley : Emerald, 2010.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Advances in entrepreneurship, firm emergence and growth ; v. 12
• Subjects: Family-owned business enterprises.; Entrepreneurship.; Employee-ownership & co-operatives.; Business & Economics > Entrepreneurship.; Business & Economics > Small Business.; Business & Economics > New Business Enterprises.
• Item Description: Description based on print version record.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 400 p.) : ill.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9780857240989 (electronic bk.) : 0857240986 (electronic bk.) :
• ISSN: 1074-7540 ;

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.