The primary research question examined in this paper is whether ethnic and non-ethnic family firms in the United Kingdom differ in their strategymaking. The paper uses the typology of strategic decision-making produced by Whittington [(1993).What is strategy: and does it matter? New York:...

Robert Chia’s work on the deconstruction and decentering of decision making offers a powerful challenge to the strategic management literature (Chia, 1994, 1996). Writers on strategy are used to debating the nature and rationality of decisions, their political motivations and the possible...

Research into family businesses has a long history of lacking theoretical underpinnings, especially with respect to strategy. Moreover, the family of the firms in question has frequently been assumed to be Anglo-Saxon, unless the family business of an ethnic minority has been the specific...