Resource Orchestration in Family Firms: Investigating How Entrepreneurial Orientation, Generational Involvement, and Participative Strategy Affect Performance
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 5, 307-326, 2011
20 Pages Posted: 18 Nov 2012 Last revised: 8 May 2013
Date Written: 2011
Abstract
Drawing on the process of resource orchestration, we argue a co-alignment of multiple factors is needed for family firms to increase performance through entrepreneurship. Specifi cally, we posit that entrepreneurial orientation provides the mobilizing vision to use the heterogeneous yet complementary knowledge and experiences offered by increased generational involvement toward entrepreneurship. However, without a coordinating mechanism, generational involvement leads to conflict and negative outcomes. When, instead, it is also coordinated via a participative strategy, performance gains are achieved. In sum, results suggest that realizing the benefits from entrepreneurship in family firms is a complicated matter affected by the synchronization of entrepreneurial orientation, generational involvement, and participative strategy.
Keywords: Family firm, resource orchestration, entrepreneurial orientation, product innovation, risk taking, proactiveness, generational involvement, knowledge, participative strategy
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