Social Capital and Values in the Internationalization of Family Firms: A Multi-Country Study

Spiros Batas (), Karine Guiderdoni-Jourdain and Tanja Leppäaho
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Spiros Batas: University of Greenwich
Karine Guiderdoni-Jourdain: CNRS, LEST, Aix-Marseille University
Tanja Leppäaho: LUT University

Chapter 12 in The Palgrave Handbook of Family Firm Internationalization, 2021, pp 361-391 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This study concerned social capital (SC) within the internationalization of family firms (FFs). We studied FFs from three countries of origin, with differing family structures (Finland with absolute nuclear families, France with exogamous families, and Taiwan with authoritarian family structures), each operating in three foreign markets or cultural contexts. We also conducted a recent study on the role of family structures on FF internationalization (Arregle et al., Journal of International Business Studies, 50(5), 809–825, 2019) as a starting point and applied literature on bifurcation bias (BB), specifically family values (Verbeke et al., Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 37, 449–477, 2020). Our interview data highlighted that different family structures were linked to inherited SC and that the value of conservation played an important role in FF international networking behavior. The Taiwanese FF based its decisions more strongly on tradition (related to religion and culture) and security than the Finnish and French FFs, in which conformity related to the protection of family members was the strongest family value influencing international networking.

Keywords: Family firms internationalization; Social capital; Strength of ties; Family values; Family structure; Bifurcation bias (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-66737-5_12

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