The Role of Family Firms Heterogeneity on the Internationalisation and Performance Relationship

García, Laura Rienda; Andreu, Rosario

doi:10.24310/ejfbejfb.v11i2.10591

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“…Hence, this study does not consider IP failures of other types of family SMEs with lower shares of family ownership. Future studies should consider investigating IP development failures within the context of various types of family SMEs, since there seems to be heterogeneity between family SMEs with different ownership structures and different levels of intensity of SEW (e.g., Mariotti et al, 2021;Rienda & Andreu, 2021;Wright et al, 2014). Also, this study considered failures of lowcommitment international business relationships.…”

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confidence: 99%

International Partnership Failures in the Context of Family Small and Medium Enterprises Internationalisation

Kampouri,

Hajidimitriou

2023

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This study aims to address the question of why the efforts of family Small and Medium Enterprises (family SMEs) to develop international partnerships fail. In particular, it draws on the network theory of internationalisation and SEW perspective and explores how family managers’ interpretation of the behaviour of potential international partners can lead to the failure of the attempt to develop an international partnership in the context of family SMEs internationalisation. To do so, it conducts a multiple case study of four internationalised Greek family SMEs in the food and beverages sector. The findings suggest that family managers set strict criteria, regarding their expectations about international partners’ behaviour when evaluating the potential international partners, which emerge from family managers’ effort to fulfil family goals (e.g., the preservation of family harmony and family reputation), and reveal that the family managers’ priority on the fulfilment of family goals can hinder the international partnership development process. These findings build upon the limited, yet important, family SMEs literature on international partnership failures and enrich previous networking theories about family SMEs’ internationalisation.

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International Partnership Failures in the Context of Family Small and Medium Enterprises Internationalisation

Kampouri,

Hajidimitriou

2023

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“…Each family firm differs, and these differences are shaped by a variety of firm and family attributes. This diversity contributes to the heterogeneous nature of family firms as a group of firms (Dibrell & Memilli, 2019;Rienda & Andreu, 2021). Generally, family firms vary in two dimensions: family and business.…”

Section: Family Firm Heterogeneity and Corporate Governancementioning

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Disentangling family firm heterogeneity: Evidence from a cross-country analysis

Arteaga,

Basco

2023

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The existing typologies, classifications that identify types of family firms based on specific characteristics, aim to enhance our understanding of the heterogeneity of family businesses. However, these typologies fall short in thoroughly exploring and predicting behavioural and performance consequences associated with being categorized within specific classifications. Furthermore, the majority of the existing analyses have been empirically tested in one single country. To address these two research gaps, we use a sample of 814 small- and medium-sized family firms operating in 21 countries, collected by the STEP Project Global Consortium. This sample is employed to classify family firms based on their corporate governance similarities and explore their behavioural and performance patterns. Building on the principles of the configurative approach, we find that each of the four family firm configuration—group of family firms with related corporate governance mechanisms—has a unique yet similar combination of patterns in terms of transgenerational entrepreneurship practices, non-economic goals, and firm performance. Additionally, expanding on the isomorphic effect, we find evidence indicating that certain world macroregions exhibit a greater propensity for specific corporate governance configurations compared to others.

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“…In the hotel industry, we can find the same debates on the relationship between internationalization and competitiveness [7,8]. However, recent studies do not advocate so much to determine the effect of internationalization, but to determine what other factors can drive a positive effect between the two [9].…”

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Internationalization and Sustainable Hotel Competitiveness: Resilience and Network Ties to Increase Tourism Sustainability

Rienda,

Ruiz-Fernández,

Andreu

2024

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The tourism industry, which is exposed to a turbulent environment, is one of the sectors that are the most vulnerable to any change (such as political, economic, environmental, or social). This makes it necessary to study firm resilience in this industry in order to identify the factors that can enhance companies’ capacity for resilience in turbulent environments. Moreover, the strategies pursued by tourism companies to become more resilient and more competitive are closely related to tourism sustainability. Among the factors that can affect resilience, we analyze the roles of the degree of internationalization and network ties. Moreover, we explore the influence of resilience on the sustainable competitiveness of hotel firms. For this purpose, we propose a variance-based structural equation modeling analysis where resilience acts as a mediating variable between the degree of internationalization and sustainable competitiveness. Our results allow us to draw important theoretical implications, which shed light on a field of study that is currently much debated, and practical implications, which will help hotel entrepreneurs to make timely decisions in dynamic environments.

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The Role of Family Firms Heterogeneity on the Internationalisation and Performance Relationship

Cited by 10 publications

References 81 publications

International Partnership Failures in the Context of Family Small and Medium Enterprises Internationalisation

International Partnership Failures in the Context of Family Small and Medium Enterprises Internationalisation

Disentangling family firm heterogeneity: Evidence from a cross-country analysis

Internationalization and Sustainable Hotel Competitiveness: Resilience and Network Ties to Increase Tourism Sustainability

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