Estrada-Robles, M orcid.org/0000-0002-0605-5737, Williams, N and Vorley, T (2020) Structural coupling in entrepreneurial families: how business-related resources contribute to enterpriseness. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. ISSN 0898-5626
Abstract
This paper examines how family members support each other’s entrepreneurial activities through sharing resources created at the business-level. Drawing on the concept of ‘enterpriseness’ the study examines the flows between a family and the business and how it influences the impacts of the businesses on the family (enterpriseness). We capture the enterpriseness by focusing on entrepreneurial families where more than one member is an owner-entrepreneur. Through in-depth interviews with entrepreneurial families in Mexico, we show how different forms of capital resources emerging from multiple businesses flow back into the family and contribute to enterpriseness. The entrepreneurial family enables access to human, social and financial capital resources that are easily mobilized and combined by other members for their multiple firms, showing a subsequent effect to the business-level. Consequently, enterpriseness influences entrepreneurial behaviours which have a variety of consequences for the entrepreneurial family and their businesses. The paper concludes with a number of contributions to theory.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of an article published in Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Enterpriseness; entrepreneurial families; family business; family as unit of analysis; qualitative; Mexico |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) > Management Division Enterprise & Entrepreneurship (LUBS) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 10 Jan 2020 13:47 |
Last Modified: | 19 Aug 2021 00:38 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/08985626.2020.1727093 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:155450 |