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TY - JOUR
T1 - Death and entrepreneuring in family businesses
T2 - a complexity and stewardship perspective
AU - Discua Cruz, Allan
AU - Hamilton, Eleanor
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Entrepreneurship and Regional Development on 24/04/2022 available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08985626.2022.2067902
PY - 2022/8/17
Y1 - 2022/8/17
N2 - Based on the works of Alistair Anderson, this article explores entrepreneuring in the context of entrepreneurial families prior to, and following, the death of a leading family member in business. Until now, literature has suggested that the loss of a leading family member may bring complexity and chaos to ongoing entrepreneurial efforts. Drawing on a complex adaptive system and stewardship perspective, this study examines the role of death in entrepreneuring in four entrepreneurial families. With the loss of a leading family member in business, social processes of adaptation in entrepreneurial trajectories are revealed. Our analysis shows that these processes allow members to reorganize, recalibrate, and reconnect aspects of family and business. Our study contributes to understanding social processes in entrepreneuring by capturing how death can influence entrepreneurial choices and progression over time, focusing on what family entrepreneurs do. Conceptualizing the family as a complex adaptive system contributes to a theoretical perspective of stewardship as fluid and collective.
AB - Based on the works of Alistair Anderson, this article explores entrepreneuring in the context of entrepreneurial families prior to, and following, the death of a leading family member in business. Until now, literature has suggested that the loss of a leading family member may bring complexity and chaos to ongoing entrepreneurial efforts. Drawing on a complex adaptive system and stewardship perspective, this study examines the role of death in entrepreneuring in four entrepreneurial families. With the loss of a leading family member in business, social processes of adaptation in entrepreneurial trajectories are revealed. Our analysis shows that these processes allow members to reorganize, recalibrate, and reconnect aspects of family and business. Our study contributes to understanding social processes in entrepreneuring by capturing how death can influence entrepreneurial choices and progression over time, focusing on what family entrepreneurs do. Conceptualizing the family as a complex adaptive system contributes to a theoretical perspective of stewardship as fluid and collective.
KW - Entrepreneuring
KW - family business
KW - complex adaptive systems
KW - death
KW - stewardship
U2 - 10.1080/08985626.2022.2067902
DO - 10.1080/08985626.2022.2067902
M3 - Journal article
VL - 34
SP - 603
EP - 629
JO - Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
JF - Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
SN - 0898-5626
IS - 7-8
ER -