Swedish Listed Family Firms and Entrepreneurial Spirit

Per-Olof Bjuggren () and Johanna Palmberg

No 147, Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation from Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies

Abstract: This paper investigates the entrepreneurial spirit in Swedish listed family firms. We associate family firms with entrepreneurship in the sense that there is an identifiable person that takes the uninsurable risk in the sense of Knight. This paper analysis two questions: Do entrepreneurial family firms have a higher rate of growth and do they invest in a more profit maximizing fashion than other listed firms? The analysis shows that entrepreneurial family firms in general are smaller in terms of market value and investments than non-family firms. Moreover, the entrepreneurial family firms are the ones that makes the most efficient investments.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Corporate Governance; Family Firms; Investments; Firm Performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 G30 L25 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2008-10-13
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-cfn, nep-cse, nep-ent and nep-hrm
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