This paper argues that while in principle offshoring allows firms to pursue greater flexibility at lower costs, in practice it presents firms with major structural and managerial challenges. Adopting the activity configuration perspective, we argue that offshoring often disrupts the development...

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:...