Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use the socio‐emotional wealth perspective to examine how the level of family involvement reduces the propensity to use incentives to non‐family managers in small to medium‐sized enterprises (SME) family firms. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to apply the theory of guided preparation to investigate the relative impact of outside counseling assistance and entrepreneurship courses on new venture creation and performance. Design/methodology/approach – To attain a sample of nascent entrepreneurs...

How pre‐venture and established business clients perceived the value of the strategic, administrative and operating assistance provided by the Small Business Development Centre (SBDC) is investigated. For both groups the results suggest that clients who received strategic assistance perceived...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain how the concept of socioemotional wealth can be combined with other important concepts in the family firm literature to develop a theory of the family firm. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper based on a review of the paper of...