Doctor of Philosophy

Firm-level entrepreneurship is an important contributor to firm survival and performance (Stevenson & Jarillo, 1990; Tushman, 1997). It includes innovation, venturing and strategic renewal (Zahra, 1996). Although researchers have examined various determinants of firm-level entrepreneurship, this...

The focus of this research is the measurement and management tool known as the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and how it can be applied in the family business context. In this article we add familiness to the four BSC perspectives (financial, innovation and learning, customer, internal process) and...

In this research, we compare firms' capacity to react to emerging opportunities and threats (strategic flexibility) by assessing strategic initiatives (i.e., strategic planning) in a study of family and non-family firms. We link these behaviours to measures of firm performance. In a study of 360...

Comparatively, very little of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics (HILDA) data set has been used to analyse the activities of Australian small business owner-operators, even though there are currently some 1.8 million small firms in existence. Using multiple waves of the HILDA survey, in...

Abstract Drawing on the family embeddedness perspective on entrepreneurship and the resource-based-view (RBV) of the firm, we investigate how the promotion of family-based brand identity influences competitive orientation (customer versus product) and firm performance in family businesses....

We posit that individuals who are actively engaged in activities to develop their own venture will exhibit hindsight bias when recalling their startup experiences. We observe that those who fail to develop their startup activity into an operating business demonstrate substantial hindsight bias...

We suggest in this paper one of the reasons that researchers concur agency costs in family firms are more complex than originally thought maybe related to the lack of conceptual clarity. This, we propose, is because when frameworks and theories are borrowed and enthusiastically embraced without...

This paper describes a study that investigates the mediating effects of information technology (IT) on the relationships among product and process innovations and firm performance (measured in multiple profitability and growth rate metrics). Using structural equation modeling on a sample of 397...

We posit that individuals who are actively engaged in activities to develop their own venture will exhibit hindsight bias when recalling their start-up experiences. We observe that those who fail to develop their start-up activity into an operating business demonstrate substantial hindsight bias...