Learning the ropes of entrepreneurship: understanding internal corporate venturing for family firms from an entrepreneurial learning perspective

Wiedeler, Conrad; Kammerlander, Nadine

doi:10.1007/s11846-019-00354-3

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“…CV in family firms follows temporal patterns that are strictly dependent on family (Minola et al, 2016a) and ownership lifecycles (Brumana et al, 2017); such a developmental approach is deemed important for understanding CV and is quite distinctive of family firms. Additionally, CV has been analysed in terms of the career (Marchisio et al, 2010) and learning effects (Wiedeler and Kammerlander, 2019) of family members. However, CV in family firms can occur in ways that are unique, and we still know little about this process.…”

Section: Domain Redefinition (Ontology)mentioning

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Corporate Entrepreneurship and Family Business: Learning Across Domains

Minola

Kammerlander

Kellermanns

et al. 2020

J Management Studies

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Research at the interface of corporate entrepreneurship (CE) and family firms’ domains has grown steadily based on the premise that family firms’ specific elements uniquely affect CE antecedents, strategies, and outcomes. However, much remains to be uncovered. In this article, we offer a theoretical advancement of a corporate entrepreneurship process model for the case of family firms organized around the categories of ontology (i.e., domain redefinition), epiphany (i.e., new components and mechanisms), and heterogeneity (i.e., family firm variety and contingencies). This development paves the way for an agenda for future research and for possible generalizations to non‐family firms.

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Section: Domain Redefinition (Ontology)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Corporate Entrepreneurship and Family Business: Learning Across Domains

Minola

Kammerlander

Kellermanns

et al. 2020

J Management Studies

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“…Family resources. Financial resources underpin and enhance internal venturing and innovation activities (Riar et al, 2021;Wiedeler and Kammerlander, 2019) as well as external ventures (Au et al, 2013;Ramírez-Pasillas et al, 2021). In the historical case of a long-lived Spanish family firm (Giner and Ruiz, 2020), the obligation of family members to financially support new entrepreneurial activities within the firm is even explicitly set out in a written deed.…”

Section: Incumbent Generation Characteristicsmentioning

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Opening up the black box of family entrepreneurship across generations: A systematic literature review

Capolupo

Ardito

Petruzzelli

et al. 2022

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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What makes some families more entrepreneurial than others? How are they able to nurture entrepreneurship across generations? These are fundamental questions for family business and entrepreneurship research. In particular, the multigenerational dimension of entrepreneurial families (EFs) and the new family logics that emerge as the family grows may lead to different types of entrepreneurial activities. To shed light on these questions, we conduct a systematic literature review of 90 peer-reviewed articles focusing on the characteristics and behaviours of EFs, family members and their business activities. Specifically, we first identify and categorise the family-related factors characterising EFs across generations. Second, we link the identified factors to different types of entrepreneurial activities pursued as the generations advance, distinguishing two dimensions: mode of organising (internal vs. external), and degree of relatedness (related vs. unrelated). Finally, we highlight the main gaps in the literature and provide a future research agenda.

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“…In the context of family firms, corporate entrepreneurship has been subject to increasing interest in recent years. With regard to the activities encompassed by corporate entrepreneurship, researchers have looked at family firms pursuing "collaborative innovation" (e.g., Feranita, Kotlar & De Massis, 2017;Magistretti, Dell'Era, De Massis & Frattini, 2019), engaging in corporate venturing activities in general (e.g., Greidanus, 2011), engaging in internal corporate venturing activities in particular (e.g., Brumana, Minola, Garrett & Digan, 2017;Greidanus & Märk, 2012;Wiedeler & Kammerlander, 2019), and cooperating with external start-ups (e.g., Klopper, 2018). When examining corporate entrepreneurship in family firms in general, researchers have often aimed to identify factors that influence corporate entrepreneurship (e.g., Kellermanns & Eddleston, 2006;Minola, Campopiano, Brumana, Cassia & Garrett, 2017).…”

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“…In addition, we argue that "unifying" CAs and "internally focused" CAs may aid the firm's succession process. More specifically, Wiedeler and Kammerlander's (2019) study implies that engaging the next generation of family managers in internal corporate venturing activities may, under certain circumstances, create an opportunity for these managers to strengthen their "entrepreneurial capabilities." A comparison of the circumstances related to the design of such activities (i.e., semi-structural autonomy, medium financial risk, highly knowledgeable but medium seniority leadership) with the characteristics of "unifying CAs" suggests that these CAs may be able to offer support in this regard.…”

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Corporate Accelerators In Family Firms – A Conceptual View On Their Design

Pielken

Kanbach

2020

JABR

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Corporate accelerators (CAs) have become increasingly popular in both research and practice. In the past, analyses of CAs have centered on organizations in general, but those analyses focused on the particularities of CAs rather than the firms’ contexts. With regard to firm-specific contexts, a growing number of family firms in Germany have started CAs in recent years. Family firms are known for their idiosyncrasies due to the family’s involvement, which is argued to affect cooperation between family firms and start-ups. We claim that CAs also differ in the context of family firms. Taking a family firm specific perspective on corporate entrepreneurship, we argue that the design of family firms’ CAs is influenced by these firms’ idiosyncrasies. By connecting this perspective with general CA design dimensions, we conceptually derive family firm specific CA designs and discuss their implications for CAs in general and for CAs in the context of family firms.

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Learning the ropes of entrepreneurship: understanding internal corporate venturing for family firms from an entrepreneurial learning perspective

Cited by 18 publications

References 124 publications

Corporate Entrepreneurship and Family Business: Learning Across Domains

Corporate Entrepreneurship and Family Business: Learning Across Domains

Opening up the black box of family entrepreneurship across generations: A systematic literature review

Corporate Accelerators In Family Firms – A Conceptual View On Their Design

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