Abstract Background: The innovativeness of founders and their heirs family businesses (FBs) is a relatively unexplored field research, its understanding incomplete inconsistent. Objectives: goal to compare the founders’ investigate relationship life-long learning with in FBs. Methods/Approach: paper based on including survey FBs Slovenia. differences two groups – are compared, strength dependen...

Based on the works of Alistair Anderson, this article explores entrepreneuring in context entrepreneurial families prior to, and following, death a leading family member business. Until now, literature has suggested that loss may bring complexity chaos to ongoing efforts. Drawing complex adaptive system stewardship perspective, study examines role four families. With business, social processes ...

This study investigates the association between SEW and EO, considering moderating role of generation that is involved in family businesses, EO might benefit from entrepreneurial affective attitudes first generations. We collected a survey with final sample 107 firms textile clothing manufacturing industry Brazil. As data analyses, we employed variance-based structural equation modeling using S...

H istory is replete with examples of spectacular ascents of family businesses. The Rothschilds, for example, not only amassed the greatest concentration of private wealth the Western world has ever seen, they are also credited with changing the fate of history by financing monarchs and kings—one of their most famous bets being the support for Wellington’s armies, which ultimately led to the def...