 Family Commitment and Product Innovation in Family SMEs. Do Management Control Systems Have an Influence?Sami Basly and Myriam Cano-Rubio Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies, 2024, vol. 33, issue 3, 517-547 Abstract: This article empirically examines the role of family members’ commitment to a family business on product innovation. In light of the theories advocating the use of organisational and management control tools to foster innovation—through hierarchical control and interactive dialogue—a conceptual and empirical framework applied to the case of product innovation in the family firm is suggested. The theoretical framework was tested through partial least squares structural equation modelling on sample data obtained from 47 French family small- and medium-sized enterprises. Empirical evidence shows that the higher the family commitment is, the less the family firm will engage in product innovation. In line with expectations, the models show that a diagnostic and interactive use of control systems positively influences family firms’ product innovation. However, while the moderating effect of ‘diagnostic control systems’ was substantiated, that of ‘interactive control systems’ was not established. Keywords: Product innovation; family firm; management control; diagnostic use of control; interactive use of control (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:jouent:v:33:y:2024:i:3:p:517-547 DOI: 10.1177/09713557241281796 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies from Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India |
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