Entrepreneurship and Family Business Vitality

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Family Business Vitality

   • José Manuel Saiz-Álvarez, Jesús Manuel Palma-Ruiz, João Leitão

   Pages 1-5

3. Family Firms: Socioemotional Intelligence and Wealth

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Between Reason and Emotion: Socioemotional Intelligence as a Non-tangible Resource for Strategy, Operation, and Sustainability for the Family Business

      • Danny Christian Barbery-Montoya, Carlos Luis Torres-Briones

      Pages 9-25

   3. Small Family Firms and Strategies Coping the Economic Crisis: The Influence of Socio-emotional Wealth

      • Francesca Maria Cesaroni, Annalisa Sentuti, Serena Cubico

      Pages 27-48

   4. Employees’ Change-Oriented and Proactive Behaviors in Small- and Medium-Sized Family Businesses

      • Teresa Spiess, Anita Zehrer

      Pages 49-64

4. Family Firms: Leadership

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. Entrepreneurial Leadership Across Countries: The Role of Informal Institutions

      • Claudia Felix, Sebastian Aparicio, David Urbano

      Pages 67-83

   3. Generational Diversity as a Moderator for the Relationship Between Absorptive Capacity and Innovation Performance at Family Firms

      • Gloria Charão Ferreira, João M. Ferreira

      Pages 85-111

   4. Shared Leadership at the Top of Family Firms: How Sibling Teams Engage in Successful Co-leadership

      • Jana Bövers, Christina Hoon

      Pages 113-132

   5. Territorial Maps of Senior Entrepreneurship: A Multidimensional Analysis Based on GEM Data

      • José Manuel Saiz-Álvarez, Alicia Coduras-Martínez

      Pages 133-150

   6. Relationship Conflicts in Family Firms: An Empirical Analysis

      • Ismael Barros-Contreras, Juan Hernangómez-Barahona, Natalia Martín-Cruz

      Pages 151-174

5. Family Firms: Innovation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. Commitment to Learning, Knowledge, and Strategic Renewal: Do Family Firms Manage Them Differently?

      • Marta Pérez-Pérez, Remedios Hernández-Linares

      Pages 177-203

   3. The Moderating Effects of Family Farms Between Innovation, Information Systems, and Training-Learning Over Performance

      • Alfonso A. Rojo-Ramírez, Alicia Ramírez-Orellana, John Eddson Burgos-Burgos, Daniel Ruiz-Palomo

      Pages 205-231

   4. The Effect of CEO Attributes on the Internationalization-Performance Relationship in Private Family Firms

      • Jonathan Bauweraerts

      Pages 233-253

6. Family Firms: Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255

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   2. Is Being Conservative at Home Whilst Taking Risks Abroad a Suitable Competitive Strategy? The Case of Spanish Family Firms Internationalizing to Mexico

      • Julen Castillo-Apraiz, Unai Arzubiaga, Jesús Manuel Palma-Ruiz

      Pages 257-268

   3. Corporate Venturing Determinants in Mexican Family Firms

      • Luis Arturo Torres-García, M. Concepción López-Fernández, Ana M. Serrano-Bedia

      Pages 269-295

   4. Determinants of the Economic Performance of Portuguese Family Firms: Is Innovation Relevant?

      • Aurora A. C. Teixeira, Sofia F. Correia

      Pages 297-326

In order to respond to economic globalization and increased competitive pressures, companies need innovative, efficient and effective management strategies. Accordingly, this book explores various scenarios faced by entrepreneurs and family businesses, and proposes strategies to tackle the challenges and seize opportunities to grow in a highly competitive environment. It underscores the importance of deploying vital strategies to survive and flourish in the long term, overcoming challenges, and capitalizing on opportunities in order to attain / maintain a competitive position. By presenting and integrating the latest insights and case studies on entrepreneurship, family businesses, and strategy research, the book provides concrete recommendations for effective business survival and growth.

• Entrepreneurship in family businesses
• Innovation in family-owned businesses
• Leadership succession in family businesses
• Inter-generational family business strategy
• Family businesses and regional development
• Competitiveness of family business
• Financial constraints to innovation in family businesses
• Entrepreneurial development in families
• Internationalization of family businesses

• EGADE Business School-Tecnologico de Monterrey, Zapopan, Mexico

  José Manuel Saiz-Álvarez

• University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

  João Leitão

• Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico

  Jesús Manuel Palma-Ruiz

José Manuel Saiz-Álvarez is a full-time Research Professor at EGADE Business School, Monterrey Institute of Technology (Mexico) and Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil (Ecuador), Autonomous University of Manizales (Colombia), and St Francis Xavier University of Chuquisaca (Bolivia). He is a member of the National System of Researchers of CONACYT (Mexico) and has been officially accredited in Spain by the National Spanish Agency for the Evaluation of Quality and Accreditation. Dr. Saiz-Alvarez was the Academic Director of the Doctorate in Business Sciences, specializing in entrepreneurship and family business, Nebrija University (Spain), where he supervised more than 70 doctoral theses of students from Europe and America. His work spans more than 200 publications across five languages, and includes research articles, monographs, and book chapters on the labor market, outsourcing, entrepreneurship, and family business. 

João Leitão holds a Habilitation in technological change and entrepreneurship; and a Ph.D. in economics, University of Beira Interior (Portugal). Since 1999, he is an Assistant Professor (tenured) in economics and entrepreneurship. He is also an associate researcher at the CEG-IST, University of Lisbon (Portugal), and external research fellow of the Multidisciplinary Business Institute, University of Salamanca (Spain). He is author and co-author of scientific books on benchmarking, clusters, cooperation networks, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, innovation, competitiveness, public policies, and quality of life. His research work has been published in several indexed journals and Springer and Palgrave Macmillan books.


Jesus Manuel Palma-Ruiz is an Associate Professor at the School of International Economics of the Autonomous University of Chihuahua (Mexico). Dr. Palma has an international doctorate with Honors in business and entrepreneurial management withapplication to SMEs, entrepreneurship and family businesses from the University of Cantabria (Spain). He is a member of the National System of Researchers of CONACYT (Mexico). For more than 10 years, he has been a professor of business and entrepreneurship at Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico), collaborating in different programs including the "Eugenio Garza Lagüera" Entrepreneurship Institute, business incubators, family business consulting, and the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Team in Mexico. 

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