Influence of the lack of a standard definition of “family business” on research into their international strategies

  1. Myriam Cano-Rubio 1
  2. Guadalupe Fuentes-Lombardo 1
  3. Manuel Carlos Vallejo-Martos 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Jaén
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    Universidad de Jaén

    Jaén, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0122p5f64

Revista:
European Research on Management and Business Economics

ISSN: 2444-8834

Año de publicación: 2017

Volumen: 23

Número: 3

Páginas: 132-146

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1016/J.IEDEEN.2016.10.002 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: European Research on Management and Business Economics

Resumen

Research into the internationalisation strategies of family businesses is plagued by the excessive use of many and varied concepts to define these companies, and often leads to diverse and disparate results. The conceptual spectrum used by researchers is very broad, ranging from the simplest definition, in which a company is classified as a family business on the basis of the perception of its owners and/or managers, to others which consider variables such as ownership, management, involvement of the family in the business, continuity and combinations thereof. The results obtained highlight the need for those researching family business internationalisation strategies to use a standard definition of family business, so enabling us to continue advancing in our knowledge of this topic and avoid coming to different conclusions merely as a result of having based our research on different definitions.

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This research work has been developed thanks to a grant awarded by the University of Jaén (Spain) to make the Research Project with the code number UJA 2013/08/14 and sponsored by the Foundation Caja Rural of Jaén.

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