Competitive Advantage in Long-Lived Family Firms: Implications of Market Characteristics and Strategically Relevant Knowledge

Britta Boyd (), Susanne Royer () and Toshio Goto
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Britta Boyd: University of Southern Denmark
Susanne Royer: Europa-Universität Flensburg
Toshio Goto: Japan University of Economics

Chapter 35 in The Palgrave Handbook of Heterogeneity among Family Firms, 2019, pp 961-1000 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Literature concerning intra-family succession versus non-family succession is still limited. As a result, we know relatively little about the impact of an internal succession on keeping strategically relevant knowledge inside the business. Consequently, this chapter’s primary research interest is the interplay between market context and strategically relevant knowledge resources in long-lived family firms. Based on the market-based view and resource theory, we suggest that in some market environments, family-business-specific experiential knowledge forms a basis for competitive advantage and that such knowledge can be transferred to internal successors easier than to external successors. Several propositions are developed and discussed in relation to six case studies of long-lived family businesses from different market contexts. As a result, we put forward four revised propositions for future research to investigate.

Keywords: Knowledge; Family business; Competitive advantage; Market context; Case studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-77676-7_35

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