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Title Pull of opportunity and push of necessity on family and non-family businesses: Embedded in society in Egypt, Madagascar, Morocco and Turkey
Full text https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/pull-of-opportunity-and-push-of-necessity-on-family-and-non-famil
Date 2021
Author(s) Ashourizadeh, Shayegheh; Kalhor, Elham; Skalli, Hasna; Hu, Xiaoting
Abstract The upstart of a business may be motivated by a pull of an opportunity in the market or by a push of necessity to make a living. The business may be governed by family or by a non-family group. The question is whether motive and governance are coupled. Drawing on the resource-based view, we hypothesise that families especially often are motivated by opportunity. Representative samples of family and non-family businesses in Egypt, Madagascar, Morocco and Turkey reported on motives for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey. Motive and governance are found to be coupled, in that family businesses, more than non-family businesses, tend to be motivated by opportunity. Moreover, this coupling is found in all four societies, and to be of similar strength in all four, suggesting that the coupling may be globally universal for similar contexts. Finding this coupling contributes to the theory of family business and practice for policymakers.
Subject(s) Context; Family business; Independence opportunity; Necessity motive; Opportunity motive; Wealth creation opportunity
Language en
Relation https://edepot.wur.nl/585999
Type of publication Article/Letter to editor
Format text/html
Source European Journal of International Management 16 (2021) 2; ISSN: 1751-6757
Rights Wageningen University & Research
Identifier 10.1504/EJIM.2021.117117
Repository Wageningen - University of Wageningen
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