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Family firm configurations for high performance: The role of entrepreneurship and ambidexterity

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posted on 2017-09-01, 08:47 authored by Mathew Hughes, Matthias Filser, Rainer Harms, Sascha Kraus, Man-Ling Chang, Cheng-Feng Cheng
The performance drivers of family firms have spawned considerable research interest. Almost exclusively this research has relied on independent sets of explanatory variables in linear analyses. These analyses mask the complex interdependencies that are likely to exist among key success factors, leading to faulty theory and misspecified implications for practice. As treatment, we propose a configuration approach to family firm performance that accounts for complex interdependencies among entrepreneurial, innovation and family influence conditions. Using a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) of a sample of 129 Finnish family firms, we identify sufficient conditions with regards to the existence or absence of antecedent conditions to family firm performance. These conditions include entrepreneurial orientation, exploration and exploitation activities that form causal paths towards family firm performance. To enrich our analysis, we theorize and empirically analyse how these conditions might differ in family firms with high and low levels of family influence. We deepen the current understanding of configurations that promote the performance of family firms, offer important implications for theory and practice, and set new directions for future research on the strategic management of family firms. Our results are also virtually identical and insensitive to change across subjective and objective performance measures.

History

School

  • Business and Economics

Department

  • Business

Published in

British Journal of Management

Volume

29

Issue

4

Pages

595-612

Citation

HUGHES, M. ... et al, 2018. Family firm configurations for high performance: The role of entrepreneurship and ambidexterity. British Journal of Management, 29 (4), pp.595-612.

Publisher

© British Academy of Management. Published by Wiley

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: HUGHES, M. ... et al, 2018. Family firm configurations for high performance: The role of entrepreneurship and ambidexterity. British Journal of Management, 29 (4), pp.595-612, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12263. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.

Acceptance date

2017-08-24

Publication date

2017-12-06

Copyright date

2017

ISSN

1045-3172

eISSN

1467-8551

Language

  • en