Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Family Firms

Author: Sascha Kraus, Thomas Clauss and Andreas Kallmuenzer Series: Research Handbooks in Business and Management series

This comprehensive Research Handbook offers new insights into how family businesses use entrepreneurship and innovation to address global challenges and ensure their survival and growth across generations.

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Using expertise from leading scholars around the world, this Handbook takes an international perspective and explores different national contexts and cultures. Key themes include theoretical advances and perspectives in entrepreneurship and innovation in family firms, current state-of-the-art research in entrepreneurship and innovation in family firms, and new and established research methods in entrepreneurship, innovation, and family firm research. Covering important concepts, including internationalization, governance, and resilience, this Research Handbook lays out a highly topical selection of advances in research on entrepreneurship and innovation in family firms.

Examining the major overarching themes of theory, empirics and methods, this Research Handbook will be a valuable resource for scholars and advanced students of entrepreneurship, family business, organizational innovation, and organization studies. It will also be useful for business leaders and practitioners in these areas.

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“'The continuity of family firms is dependent in part in the ability of business families to continue their entrepreneurial spirit and to promote innovation within the organization. The Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Family Firms provides a really good overview of the many components of innovation and entrepreneurship in family firms. These include theoretical approaches that can enrich our understanding, relevant areas of research, and important methodological approaches. This Handbook can help those who are starting their journey in the field and those that have been part of the field for a long time to better understand entrepreneurship and innovation.'”

‘The continuity of family firms is dependent in part in the ability of business families to continue their entrepreneurial spirit and to promote innovation within the organization. The Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Family Firms provides a really good overview of the many components of innovation and entrepreneurship in family firms. These include theoretical approaches that can enrich our understanding, relevant areas of research, and important methodological approaches. This Handbook can help those who are starting their journey in the field and those that have been part of the field for a long time to better understand entrepreneurship and innovation.’ -- Isabel C. Botero, University of Louisville, US
‘In an increasingly uncertain and volatile environment, many family businesses survive for decades and even centuries. This book offers the main keys to this long-term success, analyzing the role of entrepreneurship and innovation. An essential book to understand the future of the family business in new times.’ -- José C. Casillas, University of Seville, Spain

About the Author

Edited by Sascha Kraus, Full Professor of Management, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, Thomas Clauss, Full Professor of Corporate Entrepreneurship and Digitalization in Family Business, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany and Andreas Kallmuenzer, Full Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management, Excelia Business School, France