Transition from Family Business to Business Family: Managing Paradoxical Tensions in Organizational Identities and Portfolio Entrepreneurship

Jeremy Cheng () and Roger King ()
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Jeremy Cheng: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Roger King: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Chapter Chapter 21 in The Palgrave Handbook of Managing Family Business Groups, 2023, pp 549-586 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We explore the understudied phenomenon of the transition from family business to business family, examining the underlying changes and triggers of this transition through a paradox lens. Using a multi-case methodology of three ethnic Chinese business families owning sizable family business groups, we found that families-in-business resolved various paradoxical tensions related to organizational identity and portfolio entrepreneurship in the transition. We discuss theoretical and practical implications related to the transition.

Keywords: Family business; Business family; Transition; Theory of paradox; Organizational identity; Portfolio entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-13206-3_21

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