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Abstract

This research note presents some food for thought about linking and relating the family, family business and entrepreneurship fields. Although each field has developed an important body of knowledge and some work has been done at the intersections, we show that many important questions remain unanswered. We first offer a brief review of the main research streams and perspectives in the topic areas, shedding light on the significant contributions and highlighting some outstanding research questions. We then examine the intersection of all three fields and offer recommendations on how these might be researched. We propose theories, perspectives, methods, epistemological stances as well as interesting questions for further investigation.

5.4. Diversify epistemological stances

Entrepreneurship, family studies, and family business all initially took de facto positivist stances. Research is progressively coming to admit that situations can be socially constructed. This is reflected, for example in the structural versus transactional view of the family for family entrepreneurship (Brannon et al., 2013; Koerner & Fitzpatrick, 2004). It is reflected in the entrepreneurship debate: are opportunities identified/discovered or are the (co) created (Alvarez & Barney, 2007)? Examples are yet to be found in family business research. The field of family entrepreneurship can only be truly explored through admitting the construction of the family, of entrepreneurship, of the family business. In addition to the gaps identified throughout this research note, we offer hereafter a suggestive but not exhaustive set of questions in order to advance research in family entrepreneurship:
How are different time horizons and entrepreneurial behaviors conciliated in family firms and business families?
How is entrepreneurship developed in family firms and how does the family system influence it? Which other systems influence it?
How can the family’s cultural orientation help to understand entrepreneurial behaviors? Considering that appropriate entrepreneurial behaviors differ by culture, do differences in the family culture, organizational culture and national culture lead to higher (or lower) levels of entrepreneurial behavior?
What are the effects of the family on opportunity identification or creation?
How does familiness shape entrepreneurial behaviors in family businesses, business families?
What are the factors (individual, family, organizational) affecting transgenerational entrepreneurship?
What are the causes and effects of a family entrepreneurial orientation?