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New Theoretical Perspectives on Family Business Entrepreneurial Behavior

In: Understanding Family Businesses

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  • Mary A. Barrett

    (University of Wollongong)

  • Ken Moores

    (Bond University)

Abstract

Family business leaders are often characterized as entrepreneurs (Aldrich and Cliff 2003 ; Shepherd and Haynie 2009 ). In attempting to understand the entrepreneurial thinking of family firm leaders, scholars have typically borrowed from the extant literature on entrepreneurship, which traditionally emphasizes characteristics of individual entrepreneurs such as their personalities, propensity for risk-taking, personal values, and so on. 1 However as Aldrich and Martinez ( 2003 ) point out, there are changes afoot in how entrepreneurship is being studied, including (a) a shift in theoretical emphasis from the characteristics of entrepreneurs as individuals to the consequences of their actions, (b) a deeper understanding of how entrepreneurs use knowledge, resources, and networks to construct and reconstruct fi rms, and (c) a more sophisticated taxonomy of environmental forces at different levels of analysis (population, community, and society) that affect entrepreneurship.

Suggested Citation

  • Mary A. Barrett & Ken Moores, 2012. "New Theoretical Perspectives on Family Business Entrepreneurial Behavior," International Studies in Entrepreneurship, in: ALAN CARSRUD & Malin Brännback (ed.), Understanding Family Businesses, chapter 0, pages 271-288, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:inschp:978-1-4614-0911-3_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0911-3_16
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