This research is based on a longitudinal study of a technology-based start-up. It describes two narratives: a dominant "entrepreneur as solo actor" meta-narrative and a "familial" sub-narrative. Although not typically described as a family firm, embedded in the story of its founding are many...

This special issue focuses on the topic ofentrepreneurial management and governance in family firms, andincludespapers presented at a conference held in 2002. Keyquestions addressed by the papers in the issue include: (1) What are thecontingencies and contexts in which family-based approaches to...

Succession in family owned businesses (FOBs) isinvestigated in order to discover a more complete model of what it takes for asuccession to succeed, determine trends, develop consensus findings, and fillgaps in the conceptual and empirical knowledge, and suggest areas for futureresearch. A...

Previous research has shown there is a high failure rate (70%) for successions in family owned businesses. Other researchers have suggested that the reasons why such successions fail are: unclear succession plans, incompetent or unprepared successors, and family rivalries. In this paper, poorly...

Introduces the special issue which focuses on family business entrepreneurial developments. Outlines the articles in the issue which not only increase our repository of family business research, but also provide useful insights for new research addressing topics such as family business centred...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, to review the notion of social capital and its dominant dimensions and appraise the ways in which social capital and these dimensions have been applied within family business research. Second, to develop a number of suggestions of ways in...

"Agency problems in economics virtually always entail self-interested agency exhibiting "insufficient" loyalty to principal. Social psychology also has a literature, mainly derived from work by Stanley Milgram, on issues of agency, but this emphasizes excessive loyalty -- people undergoing a...