The effect of socioemotional wealth on the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and family business performance

This study examines how five key entrepreneurial orientation (EO) dimensions—risk taking, innovativeness, proactiveness, competitive aggressiveness, and autonomy—affect family business performance, as well as the moderating effect of socioemotional wealth (SEW) on these relationships. The findings,...

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Autores: Hernández Linares, Remedios, Kellermanns, Franz W., López Fernández, María Concepción|||0000-0002-6204-9825, Sarkard, Soumodip
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/25219
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10902/25219
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Entrepreneurial orientation
Firm performance
Family firm
Socioemotional wealth
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Sumario:This study examines how five key entrepreneurial orientation (EO) dimensions—risk taking, innovativeness, proactiveness, competitive aggressiveness, and autonomy—affect family business performance, as well as the moderating effect of socioemotional wealth (SEW) on these relationships. The findings, based on a sample of 609 Spanish and Portuguese family firms, reveal that not all EO dimensions are equally important for performance, as only proactiveness, competitive aggressiveness, and autonomy were significant. However, we also find that the EO–performance relationship is affected by concern for SEW preservation, as our SEW measure moderates risk taking positively and innovativeness negatively.