Entrepreneurial orientation, learning orientation, market orientation, and organizational performance: family firms versus non-family firms

ABSTRACT: Firms develop and use multiple strategic orientations. However, the investigations considering more than one strategic orientation are scant and have paid scant attention to the singular context of family firms, despite the growing evidence of their special strategic behavior. To cover the...

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Autores: Hernández Linares, Remedios, López Fernández, María Concepción|||0000-0002-6204-9825
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:10902/26758
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10902/26758
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Strategic orientation
Entrepreneurial orientation
Learning orientation
Market orientation
Performance
Family firm
Orientación estratégica
Orientación emprendedora
Orientación al aprendizaje
Orientación al mercado
Empresa familiar
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Sumario:ABSTRACT: Firms develop and use multiple strategic orientations. However, the investigations considering more than one strategic orientation are scant and have paid scant attention to the singular context of family firms, despite the growing evidence of their special strategic behavior. To cover these research gaps, we analyze the combined effects of three strategic orientations (mainly, entrepreneurial orientation, learning orientation, and market orientation) on family firm's performance, by comparing family firms and non-family firms from Spain and Portugal. Our results show that the entrepreneurial orientation is the strategic orientation with higher impact on family firm performance, followed by market orientation, so, our work offers family firms some insights to an improved performance. In addition our work contributes to literature by corroborating the idea of strategic equifinality.