Al-Tabbaa, O orcid.org/0000-0003-2669-4576, Nasr, A, Zahoor, N et al. (1 more author) (2022) Socio-emotional Wealth Preservation and Alliance Success in Family Firms: The Role of Political Instability and Alliance Management Capability. British Journal of Management. ISSN 1045-3172
Abstract
Socio-emotional wealth preservation (SEW-P) can create a dilemma for family firms when seeking to establish strategic alliance: how to manage the need to establish strategic alliances aimed at obtaining complementary network-based resources (the economic dimension) with the fear that such a move may jeopardize family control and domination (the SEW dimension). To address this dilemma (also labelled as a ‘mixed gamble’), we theorized that the concern to preserve SEW (i.e. SEW-P) can contribute to family firms’ alliance success being dependent on the leverage of alliance management capability (AMC). We also propose that SEW-P can act as an organizational cognitive enabler for AMC. Yet the positive association between SEW-P and AMC will become stronger when family firms operate in a politically unstable environment. We tested these hypotheses using a unique dataset collected from 302 family firms operating in a politically unstable environment (the Libyan context), and the analysis lends support to our model and predictions. Overall, the study advances the alliance theories and family business literature by adding new insights that explain the effect of non-financial priorities of family firms, and related contingencies, in predicting alliance success.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > International Business Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 06 May 2022 13:19 |
Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2023 22:53 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1467-8551.12626 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:186491 |