http://hdl.handle.net/10993/66 Search this channel search http://orbilu.uni.lu/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/10993/41918 Title: Ethnography: A Much-Advocated but Under-Used Qualitative Methodology in Published Accounts of Family Business Research <br/> <br/>Author, co-author: Fletcher, Denise Elaine; Adiguna, Rocky <br/> <br/>Abstract: In parallel with the growing interest in qualitative research methods in family business, many family business scholars advocate greater use of ethnographic methods to advance the field further. This endorsement rests at least on two arguments. On the one hand, there is a need to widen, extend, or deepen our perspectives to better understand the ‘boundary crossing’ nature of families in business. On the other hand, the majority of the proposals to extend ethnographic research aim to tap into important but still under-explored complex tacit processes of family firms. However, we found that ethnographic research in family business settings remain scarcely published. This chapter reviews a set of family business studies that have used ethnographic methods, and which have been published in business and management journals in order to examine their orientations, main findings, techniques adopted, and epistemological/ontological stances. Looking forward, we end this chapter with a brief discussion on how the practice of ethnography is changing with reference to visual and virtual applications of ethnographic principles. Wed, 22 Jan 2020 15:07:04 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10993/41910 Title: The tacit knowledge of entrepreneurial design: interrelating theory, practice and prescription in entrepreneurship research’ <br/> <br/>Author, co-author: Selden, Paul; Fletcher, Denise Elaine <br/> <br/>Abstract: An important challenge facing entrepreneurship researchers is the “three-body” knowledge problem of how to use “theoretical knowledge” to produce “prescriptive knowledge” that communicates the “practical knowledge” of situated practice to students and practitioners of entrepreneurship. We argue that a contribution can be made to solving this problem by theorizing practical knowledge as the “know-how” to do a situated entrepreneurial practice. “Know-how” is a cognitive “capacity to act” that prescribes for a practitioner how to produce a type of outcome in a range of circumstances. This “know-how” can potentially, therefore, be reconstructed theoretically as explicit micro-prescriptive guidelines for third-party practice. To exploit this connection between practical knowledge and prescriptive knowledge, however, we first need to overcome the problem that “know-how” is largely tacit in the moment of real-time forward-looking practice. In other words, the practitioner is not directly aware of their tacit “know-how”, or “tacit knowledge”, at the time of practice. In this article, we explore the contribution design theory can make to empirically eliciting, and conceptually inferring, the real-time “tacit knowledge” of entrepreneurial practice as a precursor to producing micro-prescriptive knowledge. Wed, 22 Jan 2020 14:23:54 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10993/40763 Title: THE INFLUENCE OF FAMILY OWNERSHIP ON M&AS AND INNOVATION <br/> <br/>Author, co-author: Issah, Abdul-Basit <br/> <br/>Abstract: I draw from the concept of mixed gambles to investigate the socioemotional wealth trade-offs associated with high risk strategic decisions such as firm acquisition decisions of family firms. We contrast the predictions from mixed gambles with those of the commonly used behavioural agency model (BAM). Our empirical results for a panel data set of large U.S. firms support the mixed gambles predictions and reject those derived from BAM. They reveal that family firms are more likely to engage in horizontal acquisitions than non-family firms and that the engagement of family firms in horizontal acquisitions is even higher when they are in a gain frame. Thu, 24 Oct 2019 11:07:04 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10993/39406 Title: How shared pre-start-up moments of transition and cognitions contextualize effectual and causal decisions in entrepreneurial teams <br/> <br/>Author, co-author: Tryba, Anne; Fletcher, Denise Elaine <br/> <br/>Abstract: Although it is reported that early venture decisions are influenced by the relationships and common history of entrepreneurial team members, little is known about how the mutual interests and ambitions experienced in the pre-start-up phase provide a shared and relational context for joint decisions. Drawing on a multiple case study approach of nine entrepreneurial teams in new ventures, this study identifies the shared pre-start-up moments of transition during which team members’ prior work and life patterns start to change. We show that in these intense moments, shared entrepreneurial cognition evolves among team members – the relationality of which provides a unique social context for decision behaviors. Our findings conclude that effectual behaviors advance a theory of context because in simultaneously working with effectual and causal logics (albeit with varying intensities), team decisions are realized that are consistent with the relational context that emerges in the pre-start-up moment. Sun, 28 Apr 2019 03:30:01 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10993/39211 Title: Creating the future in the present: the embodied practice of artifactual design <br/> <br/>Author, co-author: Fletcher, Denise Elaine; Seldes, Paul Thu, 28 Mar 2019 10:16:22 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10993/39148 Title: A la rechercher de soutien émotionnel : Femmes entrepreneurs et réseaux féminins <br/> <br/>Author, co-author: Bourdil, Maryline; Geraudel, Mickaël Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:17:35 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10993/37598 Title: Entrepreneurial Teams, New Venture Direction and Growth: Evidence from Luxembourg <br/> <br/>Author, co-author: Tryba Geb. Fricke, Anne Karin <br/> <br/>Abstract: New ventures can be an important driver of economic growth and technological progress. Yet, many new ventures fail and do not overcome the challenges of the early entrepreneurial phase. Extant research has acknowledged that the people who jointly start and manage a new venture have a key impact on its subsequent success and development. However, a discrepancy exists in how the interplay of their characteristics, cognition, and actions ultimately shape the way a new venture evolves. Therefore the primary purpose of this thesis is to contribute to this research stream by exploring the multifaceted role of entrepreneurial teams for new venture direction and growth. This is done with the aid of three research papers relying on a multiple case study and a specifically designed dataset from Luxembourg. The first paper illuminates how the shared pre-start-up transition moments of entrepreneurial team members influence the joint decision logic in the initial venture phase. Focusing on the composition of entrepreneurial teams, the second paper illustrates early activities that allow new ventures to leverage the diverse educational backgrounds of their team members to achieve financial growth. Lastly, the third paper explores aspects of leadership in new ventures and uncovers how agreement on an early shared vision affects subsequent changes in the entrepreneurial team, taking into account members’ relational ties. This thesis makes important contributions to research in entrepreneurship and strategic management, adding to a more fine-grained view on the micro-foundations and outcomes of entrepreneurial action. Also, it has practical implications for entrepreneurs, their mentors and investors, entrepreneurship education and policymakers. Tue, 04 Dec 2018 13:46:27 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10993/35998 Title: Venture Creation by Teams: How Joint Pre-Founding Circumstances Imprint on Effectual Decision-Making <br/> <br/>Author, co-author: Tryba, Anne Fri, 22 Jun 2018 20:41:44 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10993/35997 Title: Should Entrepreneurial Teams Plan or Experiment? The Interplay of Early Behavior, Diversity and Young Firm Growth <br/> <br/>Author, co-author: Tryba, Anne Fri, 22 Jun 2018 20:31:42 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10993/35996 Title: Should Entrepreneurial Teams Plan or Experiment? The Interplay of Early Behavior, Diversity and Young Firm Growth <br/> <br/>Author, co-author: Tryba, Anne Fri, 22 Jun 2018 20:26:20 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10993/35995 Title: Tapping the Potential of Diverse Founding Teams for Firm Growth: The Role of New Venture Activities <br/> <br/>Author, co-author: Tryba, Anne; Patzelt, Holger; Breugst, Nicola Fri, 22 Jun 2018 20:18:23 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10993/35775 Title: Traditions in Tension: An Ethnographic Inquiry of Luxembourg’s Family-Run Hotels <br/> <br/>Author, co-author: Adiguna, Rocky <br/> <br/>Abstract: The suggestion that tradition plays a role in family business is a long-acknowledged but often presumed notion in family business research. As a result, studies that attempt to conceptualise tradition as a focal point remain scarce. This dissertation addresses this vacuum by examining the properties and processes that are involved in the tradition-making and tradition-maintaining of hospitality-based family businesses. Based on an ethnographic inquiry of five hotel-running families in Luxembourg, this dissertation inquires into the meanings and tensions of tradition. Drawing from a process perspective, it explores how family owner-managers receive, enact, and perpetuate the continuity of the family businesses as traditions. Theoretically, this study contributes to two streams of literature: to the family business literature by providing a conceptual foundation for understanding tradition as process, and to the process organisation studies literature by proposing family business as an exemplar of tradition where the past is immanent in the present. Methodologically, this study attends to discourses and narratives at the national level, the industry level, and the organisational level to contextualise the family-run hotels in a wider discursive space. These multi-level analyses constitute the basis for the application of a field ethnography which attempts to explore the relationality between different modes of discourse in a chosen field: texts, talks, actions, and images. As a result, the lived narratives of five hotel-running families are produced. This dissertation advances tradition as a root metaphor for family business and proposes three different angles of seeing the family business as tradition: family business as received tradition, family business as enacted tradition, and family business as tradition to be transmitted. In alignment with the process perspective, four dualities in the enactment of the family businesses as traditions are discussed: repetition and novelty, preservation and abandonment, being and appearing, and certainty and possibility. Ultimately, this dissertation puts into question the predominant understanding of tradition as a fixed construct argues instead that tradition's apparent unity, fixity, and stability is a result of a reflexive process which is enacted by owner-managers on a daily basis. Fri, 01 Jun 2018 04:08:34 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10993/35774 Title: How should entrepreneurial teams behave to achieve firm growth? <br/> <br/>Author, co-author: Tryba, Anne; Breugst, Nicola Thu, 31 May 2018 20:45:15 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10993/35773 Title: Unlocking the Potential of Educationally Diverse Founding Teams for Firm Growth: The Moderating Role of New Venture Activities <br/> <br/>Author, co-author: Tryba, Anne; Patzelt, Holger; Breugst, Nicola Thu, 31 May 2018 20:43:50 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10993/32933 Title: Beyond wealth: An examination of minorities in entrepreneurship (Best Paper Award) <br/> <br/>Author, co-author: Iannone, Rosa Lisa <br/> <br/>Abstract: The paper identifies our knowledge gap in relation to minorities and entrepreneurship. It argues for a research approach to examining how entrepreneurship, agency and emancipation become enacted by entrepreneuring minorities. Wed, 08 Nov 2017 19:35:35 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10993/32507 Title: Personelle Unternehmensverflechtung und Vorstandsgehälter <br/> <br/>Author, co-author: Balsmeier, Benjamin; Peters, Heiko Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:29:53 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10993/32506 Title: Konkurrenz zwischen Managern und spezifische Investitionen <br/> <br/>Author, co-author: Balsmeier, Benjamin Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:29:19 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10993/32505 Title: Fluktuation von Vorständen und personelle Verflechtungen in DAX-Unternehmen <br/> <br/>Author, co-author: Balsmeier, Benjamin; Dilger, Alexander; Lingens, Jörg Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:28:52 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10993/32504 Title: Auswirkungen von Mehrfachmandaten deutscher Vorstands- und Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender auf den Unternehmenserfolg <br/> <br/>Author, co-author: Balsmeier, Benjamin; Buchwald, Achim; Peters, Heiko Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:28:29 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10993/32503 Title: Motive der Ausübung externer Kontrollmandate durch Vorstandsvorsitzende in deutschen Großunternehmen <br/> <br/>Author, co-author: Balsmeier, Benjamin; Buchwald, Achim Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:27:57 GMT