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:...

Robert Chia’s work on the deconstruction and decentering of decision making offers a powerful challenge to the strategic management literature (Chia, 1994, 1996). Writers on strategy are used to debating the nature and rationality of decisions, their political motivations and the possible...