How Do Family Firms Launch New Businesses? A Developmental Perspective on Internal Corporate Venturing in Family Business

Mara Brumana, Tommaso Minola, Robert P. Garrett and Shaun P. Digan

Journal of Small Business Management, 2017, vol. 55, issue 4, 594-613

Abstract: This conceptual work depicts internal corporate venturing in family business as consisting of two separate and sequential strategic choices: first, the decision about the degree of relatedness between the parent firm and the venture; second, the definition of the level of venture autonomy. Drawing on stewardship theory, we argue that family business dynamics, and in particular the development of the ownership structure, influence how family firms pursue internal corporate venturing and make decisions related to such two steps. We also discuss the contingent effect of corporate governance characteristics and of the national legal system.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1111/jsbm.12344

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