TY - JOUR
T1 - Entrepreneurial orientation in family firms
T2 - the moderating role of technological intensity and performance
AU - Garcés-Galdeano, Lucía
AU - Larraza-Kintana, Martín
AU - García-Olaverri, Carmen
AU - Makri, Marianna
N1 - Funding Information:
Authors wish to acknowledge the financial support provided by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education under projects SEJ2007-67895-C04-01 and ECO2010-21393-C04-03.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - This paper examines how socio-emotional factors can influence family firms’ commitment to entrepreneurially- oriented activities, and how their level of commitment is moderated by the technological intensity of the sector and firm performance. We find that, while family firms are less entrepreneurially-oriented than non-family firms, this gap closes with increasing technological intensity of the sector. We find no evidence, however, to suggest any change in entrepreneurial orientation in family firms resulting from a drop in firm performance.
AB - This paper examines how socio-emotional factors can influence family firms’ commitment to entrepreneurially- oriented activities, and how their level of commitment is moderated by the technological intensity of the sector and firm performance. We find that, while family firms are less entrepreneurially-oriented than non-family firms, this gap closes with increasing technological intensity of the sector. We find no evidence, however, to suggest any change in entrepreneurial orientation in family firms resulting from a drop in firm performance.
KW - Entrepreneurial orientation
KW - Family firm
KW - SEW
KW - Spanish firms
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U2 - 10.1007/s11365-014-0335-2
DO - 10.1007/s11365-014-0335-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84956876404
VL - 12
SP - 27
EP - 45
JO - International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
JF - International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
SN - 1554-7191
IS - 1
ER -