دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی بررسی ابعاد جهت گیری کارآفرینی - رابطه عملکرد در کسب و کار خانواده سعودی - امرالد 2018

Abstract

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to family firm and entrepreneurship literature by providing an examination of how family involvement in management (FIM) moderates the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO)’s dimensions and family firm performance (FFP). Design/methodology/approach – Through a survey study, the research was developed using a sample of 175 family firms in Saudi Arabia to test the proposed hypotheses using hierarchical linear regression. Findings – The findings revealed a strong positive and significant linkage of proactiveness and FIM with FFP, but, no significant relationship between innovativeness and risk-taking with FFP. However, when FIM contingencies were hypothesized, a new significant influence from the interaction between risk-taking and FIM on FFP was found. Research limitations/implications – The main limitation lies in the fact that it is not possible to claim generalization of findings to family firms in other emerging or transitional countries as the research is focused on Saudi family firms. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed in order to produce new knowledge on EO of family firms and to help these firms not consider FIM as an impediment to the development of resources and capabilities necessary to the promotion of entrepreneurial activities within their operations. Originality/value – There is a contribution to the literature on EO by showing that EO construct and its dimensions have great generality within family firms in a transitional context.

9. Conclusion

Research on family business and EO will advance by paying greater attention to the involvement of family members in the management of their firms. In this paper, we have focused not only on the proactiveness as a source of performance of family firms, but also, on the moderating negative role of FIM on risk-taking – performance relationship. There is a contribution to the literature on EO by showing that EO construct and its dimensions have great generality within family firms. We conclude that even if family firms do take risks while they are engaged in entrepreneurial activities by innovating, competing proactively in their markets, they take risk to a lesser extent especially when the family members are involved in the management of firm activities. This is a contribution in the literature of family firms by opening debate on other types of governance of these firms to be monitored in presence of firm owners and family members as managers (e.g. such as family involvement in ownership, or in the TMT […]).