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:...

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...