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Balancing Natural Environmental Concerns Of Internal And External Stakeholders In Family And Non-Family Businesses, Donald Neubaum, Clay Dibrell, Justin Craig
Balancing Natural Environmental Concerns Of Internal And External Stakeholders In Family And Non-Family Businesses, Donald Neubaum, Clay Dibrell, Justin Craig
Justin B. Craig
While researches have long suggested that firms must be attentive to their key stakeholders, the question of how attention to different stakeholders may have different benefits for different firms has not been well addressed. This is especially true in the case of family businesses, which confront a unique set of stakeholder challenges, and socioemotional goals not confronted by non-family firms. In this study, we investigate the effect of these competing demands across family and non-family firms. We argue that while being attentive to both internal and external stakeholders is important to firm performance in family and non-family firms, family firms …
The Distinctiveness, Design, And Direction Of Family Business Research: Insights From Management Luminaries, Justin Craig, Carlo Salvato
The Distinctiveness, Design, And Direction Of Family Business Research: Insights From Management Luminaries, Justin Craig, Carlo Salvato
Justin B. Craig
In this article, the authors contribute to the 25th anniversary edition of Family Business Review by gleaning from a coterie of six established scholars insights related to the distinctive nature of family business research, the research designs that emanate from this distinctiveness, and their thoughts related to the direction of the field. While their insights are confirmatory to many who have contributed to the field's strong current positioning, they serve to highlight to others the rich research opportunities that remain unexplored in the vast family business arena.
Family Firms And Entrepreneurship: Contradiction Or Synonym?, Sascha Kraus, Justin Craig, Clay Dibrell, Stefan Mark
Family Firms And Entrepreneurship: Contradiction Or Synonym?, Sascha Kraus, Justin Craig, Clay Dibrell, Stefan Mark
Justin B. Craig
Extract: This Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (JSBE) Special Issue was motivated by increasing intellectual curiosity from within the entrepreneurship academic community to study entrepreneurial phenomenon in a family business context. Family enterprises dominate the commercial landscape in all economies, and interest in the unique challenges facing this business genre is growing. In many family firms, ownership and management are maintained across several generations, and a key challenge for long-term survival is to sustain the entrepreneurial spirit of the founding generation of entrepreneurs (Littunen and Hyrsky, 2000). All firms regularly need to renew their way of doing business in …