International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research: Volume 16 Issue 5

At the heart of things: The role of the “married” couple in entrepreneurship and family business

John Blenkinsopp, Gill Owens

The paper aims to develop an expanded conceptualisation of copreneurship, locating it within the family embeddedness perspective on entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurial risk taking: empirical evidence from UK family firms

Yong Wang, Panikkos Poutziouris

The theme of this paper is entrepreneurial risk taking. Specifically, the paper has twofold objectives: to develop insights into individual and familial correlates of risk‐taking…

Business practices within South Asian family and non‐family firms:: A comparative study

Mark McPherson

The purpose of this paper is to investigate differences/similarities in business practices of second‐generation South Asian entrepreneurs within family‐owned firms, in comparison…

A six‐country study of first‐, second‐, and third‐generation family businesses

Robert N. Lussier, Matthew C. Sonfield

The purpose of this paper is to compare first‐, second‐, and third‐generation family business managerial characteristics and practices in a combined sample from six countries…

Longitudinal development of innovation implementation in family‐based SMEs: The effects of critical incidents

Rodney McAdam, Renee Reid, Neil Mitchell

There is a paucity of studies on the complex longitudinal dynamics of innovation incorporation within family‐based small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in response to market…

Not another study of great leaders: Entrepreneurial leadership in a mid‐sized family firm for its further growth and development

Wilson Ng, Richard Thorpe

The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature and process of leadership in a mid‐sized, family‐controlled bank in Singapore in order to understand how it grew and developed…

Seduced into the family business

Claire Seaman, Stuart Graham, Richard Ben