Transgenerational Entrepreneurship : Exploring Growth and Performance in Family Firms Across Generations

Introducing a new concept in family businesses Transgenerational Entrepreneurship addresses how these businesses achieve growth and longevity through entrepreneurial activities. It focuses on the resources, capabilities and mindsets that families develop and draw upon in order to be entrepreneurial across generations, and presents findings from an international research collaboration between family business researchers and practitioners. In addition to a comprehensive conceptual chapter, the editors include a unique set of empirical case-based research papers that investigates transgenerational entrepreneurship in different European contexts. They bring together and integrate frontier research on entrepreneurship and family business, as well as provide a basis for future research. Academics, teachers and students in business and management, entrepreneurship and family business will find this path-breaking book of value, as will libraries, policy makers and consultants. Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Figures......Page 7 Tables......Page 8 Contributors......Page 9 Acknowledgements......Page 14 Foreword......Page 15 1. Transgenerational entrepreneurship......Page 18 2. A qualitative research approach to the study of transgenerational entrepreneurship......Page 56 3. Balancing familiness resource pools for entrepreneurial performance......Page 75 4. Portfolio entrepreneurship in the context of family owned businesses......Page 113 5. Entrepreneurial orientation across generations in family firms: the role of owner- centric culture for proactiveness and autonomy......Page 140 6. Propelled into the future: managing family firm entrepreneurial growth despite generational breakthroughs within family life stage......Page 159 7. Dealing with increasing family complexity to achieve transgenerational potential in family firms......Page 184 8. How much and what kind of entrepreneurial orientation is needed for family business continuity?......Page 212 Index......Page 232 Edward Elgar Pub Copyright 5 Contents 6 Figures 7 Tables 8 Contributors 9 Acknowledgements 14 Foreword 15 1. Transgenerational entrepreneurship 18 2. A qualitative research approach to the study of transgenerational entrepreneurship 56 3. Balancing familiness resource pools for entrepreneurial performance 75 4. Portfolio entrepreneurship in the context of family owned businesses 113 5. Entrepreneurial orientation across generations in family firms: the role of owner- centric culture for proactiveness and autonomy 140 6. Propelled into the future: managing family firm entrepreneurial growth despite generational breakthroughs within family life stage 159 7. Dealing with increasing family complexity to achieve transgenerational potential in family firms 184 8. How much and what kind of entrepreneurial orientation is needed for family business continuity? 212 Index 232 9781847207975 "Introducing a new concept in family businesses, transgenerational entrepreneurship, this book addresses how these businesses achieve growth and longevity through entrepreneurial activities. It focuses on the resources, capabilities and mindsets that families develop and draw upon in order to be entrepreneurial across generations, and presents findings from an international research collaboration between family business researchers and practitioners"--EBL Introducing a new concept in family businesses, transgenerational entrepreneurship, this book addresses how family businesses achieve their growth and longevity through entrepreneurial activities