Martin Larraza-Kintana

Purpose: This study investigates the disparity in growth aspirations between born-family firms (BFFs) and non-family startups, with a focus on how family dynamics shape entrepreneurial goals. It aims to understand how inherent family resources and relational cohesion influence the entrepreneurial ambition to grow. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on familiness and the family embeddedness perspective, this research examines how BFFs leverage family-related advantages to mitigate the “liability of newness.” The study also explores the moderating effects of internal nuclear family factors – specifically household income and household size – on the relationship between firm type and growth aspirations. Findings: The findings suggest that BFF entrepreneurs tend to exhibit significantly higher growth aspirations than their non-family startup counterparts. Furthermore, household income and household size play a moderating role in this relationship, highlighting the nuanced influence of internal family dynamics on entrepreneurial ambition. Originality/value: This research contributes to entrepreneurship literature by showing how family structures and resources influence early-stage venture growth, highlighting the need to consider both firm- and household-level factors.

This study investigates how entrepreneurs’ growth aspirations relate to the adoption of environmental actions and how national environmental regulations moderate this relationship. We argue that growth-oriented entrepreneurs are more likely to adopt environmentally oriented behaviors due to long-term investment logic and legitimacy-seeking considerations. Moreover, we propose that stringent environmental regulations strengthen this relationship by reinforcing both mechanisms. Using a multisource dataset and applying a multilevel analysis, we find support for our hypotheses. The findings highlight the importance of both entrepreneurial growth aspirations and regulatory environments in shaping entrepreneurs’ engagement in environmental actions.

An extensive body of literature has explored the key determinants of employee job satisfaction placing particular emphasis on individual differences and job characteristics. However, variations in job satisfaction levels persist across countries, highlighting the importance of contextual and institutional factors across different national contexts. This study investigates the role of formal and informal institutions in shaping job satisfaction. Based on a sample of 10.822 employees from 26 European countries, the study employs a multilevel methodology to test the proposed hypotheses. The findings demonstrate that national institutions significantly contribute to cross-country differences in job satisfaction. In particular, the positive impact of labour freedom on job satisfaction is more pronounced in countries characterised by low power distance, low uncertainty avoidance, and high individualism. Conversely, in countries with high power distance, high uncertainty avoidance, and low individualism, the relationship between labour freedom and job satisfaction is weaker. These results emphasise the critical role of cultural and institutional contexts.

This study presents the development and validation of the Family Collective Psychological Ownership Scale (FCPO-S), an innovative instrument designed to measure the shared sense of ownership that family members feel toward their business. This scale captures two critical dimensions: family firm identification and interdependence, which reflect the emotional and strategic connections of family members to the enterprise. By focusing on these socioemotional aspects, the FCPO-S underscores the unique dynamics of family firms, where collective commitment and emotional ties can serve as significant competitive advantages. This scale constitutes a valuable contribution to business research, providing significant practical implications for understanding and managing the socioemotional dynamics of family firms.

Is entrepreneurship and family business two sibling or distinct disciplines? Both are disciplines with their own entity, but from the beginning, they have been strongly connected. In fact, family businesses have been considered a central element of the entrepreneurial process where family influence is particularly relevant in the early stages of business creation. However, the initial stage of these companies has been little explored. This article has a double objective. First, it provides a brief historical perspective on the evolution of the two academic disciplines and their interrelationships, and second, it seeks to summarize the main conclusions of the scarce literature on the perspective of family embeddedness that studies the family-entrepreneurship binomial. Finally, the paper proposes different lines of research for future studies related to family business and entrepreneurship. Received: 26 April 2023Accepted: 5 October 2023 El emprendimiento y la empresa familiar ¿son dos disciplinas hermanas o distintas? Ambas son disciplinas con entidad propia, pero desde el inicio ambas han estado fuertemente conectadas. De hecho, las empresas familiares han sido consideradas como un elemento central del proceso emprendedor donde la influencia de la familia es particularmente relevante en las primeras etapas de la creación de la empresa. Sin embargo, la etapa inicial de estas empresas ha sido poco explorada. Este artículo tiene un doble objetivo. En primer lugar, proporciona una pequeña perspectiva histórica de la evolución de las dos disciplinas académicas y sus interrelaciones, y, en segundo lugar, trata de resumir las principales conclusiones de la escasa literatura sobre la perspectiva del arraigo familiar que estudia el binomio familia-emprendimiento. Por último, el trabajo propone diferentes líneas de investigación para futuros estudios relacionados con la empresa familiar y el emprendimiento. Recibido: 26 de abril de 2023 Aceptado: 05 de octubre de 2023

Purpose: Absorptive capacity (AC), the ability to leverage external knowledge for innovation, helps explain the mixed findings on family firms' (FFs) innovation performance. Our research focuses on the chief executive officer (CEO)’s role – whether family or non-family and founding or later generation – in influencing AC. We also explore how firm size and environmental dynamism affect these relationships, offering insights into varying AC levels among FFs.Design/methodology/approach: Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models were estimated to test the hypotheses using a sample of 364 FFs in Spain.Findings: FFs’ AC is greater when the CEO is a family member, and even more so when the family CEO belongs to the founding family generation. While AC diminishes in larger FFs, this effect is mitigated when the CEO is a family member. The predicted moderating effect of environmental dynamics is not supported by the analyses.Originality/value: This paper adds insights about the drivers of heterogeneity in innovation among FFs, addressing recent calls for more nuanced views of how family members drive the strategic behavior of the business and incorporating considerations of different types of FFs based on the identity of the firm CEO. The results overall support the theoretical claims and also open up important questions for future studies.

This paper investigates how state fragility and trust affect export-oriented entrepreneurial activity. Drawing on the institutional logics perspective, we first argue that a non-favorable home-coun...

Our paper seeks to further understand the influence of gender board diversity on firms’ corporate social performance (CPS) in the context of publicly held family firms. Grounded on corporate governance and family firm literature, we argue that the influence of women directors on CSP will be contingent on their relative power and legitimacy within the board, and that such dynamics are particularly important in family firm boardrooms. Our empirical results show that increases in CSP associated with the presence of women in the boards of family firms are due mainly to the presence of outsider nonfamily and insider family women directors. Implications for the theory of family firms are discussed.