Evolving research in entrepreneurship and family business: recognizing family as the oxygen that feeds the fire of entrepreneurship

Family entrepreneurship as a field of research: Exploring its contours and contents

“…Indeed, it focuses on the family dynamic changes (or disruptions), whereas it is also important to scrutinize the static aspects of family, i.e. how do the stable characteristics of our family influence our entrepreneurial behaviors (Rogoff & Heck, 2003)?…”

“…Finally, both entrepreneurial behaviors and the success or failure of the family firm impact the family unit. In this vein, some special issues have been devoted to studying the intersection of these research fields, in an attempt to generate a new one, that of family entrepreneurship (Heck, Hoy, Poutziouris, & Steier, 2008;Poutziouris, Steier, & Smyrnios, 2004;Rogoff & Heck, 2003;Uhlaner, Kellermanns, Eddleston, & Hoy, 2012).…”

Entrepreneurial learning in family business

“…A vital gap, therefore, exists in understanding how the family and entrepreneurial processes might be related (Aldrich and Cliff, 2003;Rogoff and Heck, 2003;Heck, 2004).…”

Entrepreneurial Cognition

“…My (Dean) colleague and I argued that individuals with a stronger promotion focus are more likely to undertake identity play to escape the negative emotions stemming from identity loss-from rock bottom-than individuals with a weaker promotion focus. iDentity conflict in family firms anD an expeDiteD entrepreneurial process Many businesses are run and owned by family members (Heck and Trent 1999;Rogoff and Heck 2003;Wortman 1994), which can lead to tension within both the family and the firm (Daily and Dollinger 1992;Harvey and Evans 1994;Kellermanns and Eddleston 2004). Family conflict can be the outcome of business issues, such as different goals related to financial targets or product/service offerings.…”