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The Innovative Performance of Family Businesses: An Essay About Intellectual Capital and Absorptive Capacity

In: Intrapreneurship and Sustainable Human Capital

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  • Raysa Geaquinto Rocha

    (University of Beira Interior)

  • João Leitão

    (University of Beira Interior
    CEG-IST and ICS, University of Lisbon)

Abstract

The personal characteristics of the members, the organizational relationships, and the internal procedures need to be managed. Knowledge needs to be acquired, assimilated, transformed, and applied to create organizational value. Then, the relationship between intellectual capital and the absorptive capacity are fundamental. Family businesses, those governed and/or managed by members of the same family throughout the generations, represent more than half of the existing organizations, reaching figures close to 90% in some locations. There is a gap in the research about intellectual capital and the absorptive capacity of a family business; thus it must be explored deeply. The objective of this essay is to relate the previous evidence about the intellectual capital and the absorptive capacity of family businesses for innovative performance, identify previous results and the gap in the literature, present a conceptual model, and propose an agenda for future research. This essay was developed through a literature review. Then, this study contributes to original insights on the role of intellectual capital and absorption capacity in the innovative performance of family businesses.

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  • Raysa Geaquinto Rocha & João Leitão, 2020. "The Innovative Performance of Family Businesses: An Essay About Intellectual Capital and Absorptive Capacity," Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics, in: João Leitão & António Nunes & Dina Pereira & Veland Ramadani (ed.), Intrapreneurship and Sustainable Human Capital, edition 1, pages 211-227, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:seschp:978-3-030-49410-0_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-49410-0_12
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