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Entrepreneurship and Family Business - Volume 12 of Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth - Now Available

  • 1.  Entrepreneurship and Family Business - Volume 12 of Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth - Now Available

    Posted 07-02-2010 11:45
    Emerald is pleased to announce the publication of volume 12 of
    Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth:
    Entrepreneurship and Family Business

    Editors: Alex Stewart, G. T. Lumpkin, Jerome A. Katz

    ISBN 9780857240972
    Format Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 432 pages
    Publication Date 23rd June 2010

    Volume 12 in this series presents peer-reviewed and invited papers that showcase both quantitative and qualitative research on a range of state-of-the-art topics and approaches related to the role of entrepreneurship in family businesses. Contributors include, among others, Mike Hitt, Frank Hoy, Anne Miner, Ernesto Poza, Pramodita Sharma and Alex Stewart.

    Specifically it:
    • explores exit from the founder’s original business and entry into a new industry
    • investigates entrepreneurial risk taking in family business
    • details family dynamics from startup to exit
    • highlights spousal involvement in family business venture creation and success
    • researches religious and ethnic influences on family businesses operations
    • includes anthropological and legal perspectives on family business
    • addresses opportunities and strategies in family business education
    • promotes practice-based and other family business research techniques
    • advances the relevance and rigor of family business scholarship

    Articles in this volume provide great detail in the background, development and implementation of ideas and it's accessible style makes it prime reading for an audience of researchers and advanced graduate students from many fields other than just entrepreneurship and family business.

    Table of Contents

    An Introduction to the Special Volume on Family Business and Entrepreneurship

    PART ONE: EMPIRICAL RESEARCH

    1. The importance of looking toward the future and building on the past: entrepreneurial risk taking and image in family firms by Esra Memili, Kimberly A. Eddleston, Thomas M. Zellweger, Franz W. Kellermanns and Tim Barnett

    2. Understanding exit from the founder’s business in Family Firms by Carlo Salvato, Francesco Chirico and Pramodita Sharma

    3. The role of family member support in entrepreneurial entry, continuance, & exit: an autoethnography by William R. Meek

    4. Spousal Context During the Venture Creation Process by Sharon M. Danes, Amanda E. Matzek and James D. Werbel

    5. Society in Embryo: Family Relationships as the Basis for Social Capital in Family Firms by Ritch L. Sorenson, G. T. Lumpkin, Andy Yu and Keith H. Brigham

    6. The Catholic spirit and family business: Contrasting Latin America, Eastern Europe and Southern Europe by Vipin Gupta and Nancy Levenburg

    PART TWO: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY

    7. Skeptical about Family Business: Advancing the Field in its Scholarship, Relevance, and Academic Role by Alex Stewart

    8. The Yin and Yang of Kinship and Business: Complementary or Contradictory Forces? (And Can We Really Say?) by Alex Stewart and Michael A. Hitt

    9. Kinship, Capital, and the Unsettling of Assumptions: Contemporary Anthropology and the Study of Family Enterprise and Entrepreneurship by Danilyn Rutherford

    10. Kinship and gender by Harold W. Scheffler

    11. Sources of Entrepreneurial Discretion in Kinship Systems by Alex Stewart

    12. Cross Campus Collaboration: A Law School Perspective by Edward A. Fallone

    13. The Promise of Family Business as an Academic Field in Major Research Universities by Anne S. Miner

    14. Practice-based Research in Family Business by Dean R. Fowler and Debra Houden

    15. Four Aesthetic Models for Relevant Research in the Field of Family Enterprise by Judy Green

    16. Team approaches to entrepreneurship and family business education by Frank Hoy

    17. Late Stage Entrepreneurial Activity: What Students Should Know about Family-Owned and Family Controlled Companies by Ernesto J. Poza

    18. Taking Stock of One Decade of Research: An Outcomes-Based Framework for Teaching Family Business by Ritch L. Sorenson, Andy Yu and Keith H. Brigham

    19. A Family Business Project? So What! Eight Strategies for Intrapreneurial Scholars by Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodríguez

    20. Advancing the 3Rs of Family Business Scholarship: Rigor, Relevance, Reach by Pramodita Sharma

    Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth provides an annual examination of the major current research, theoretical and methodological efforts in the field of entrepreneurship and its related disciplines, as well as firm growth and emergence research. The title is available as part of Emerald’s Business, Management and Economics eBooks series collection, and can also be purchased separately from the usual book retailers, as well as the Emerald Bookstore.

    The book will be on display and available for purchase at the Emerald booth at the Academy of Management conference in Montreal in August.


    Tom Lumpkin, PhD
    Chris J. Witting Chair of Entrepreneurship
    Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises
    Whitman School of Management
    721 University Avenue
    Syracuse University
    Syracuse, NY 13244
    315/443-3164
    lumpkin@syr.edu
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