This paper advances the nascent literature on institutional logics by outlining the theory of family firm as an inter-institutional system. We specifically examine justifying family logic for the decision to allocate resources for a new venture in a family firm. Using case studies of thirty-six...

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 on entrepreneurship in family controlled enterprises is fairly young, though the contribution of such businesses to economies across the world has been very significant. It is now proven that creation of new ventures in family business is different from that in non-family business...

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...