Entrepreneurship and Rural Family Identity: Understanding Portfolio Development in a Family Farm Business

Sarah Fitz-Koch (), Sarah Cooper () and Allan Discua Cruz ()
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Sarah Fitz-Koch: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Sarah Cooper: University of Edinburgh, Business School
Allan Discua Cruz: Lancaster University Management School

Chapter 14 in The Family Business Group Phenomenon, 2019, pp 353-383 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Understanding the complexities and dynamics of family business groups starts with recognizing that intentions and actions of members of the business are at the same time actions and intentions of members of a family. This chapter contributes to portfolio entrepreneurship research, by showing that business groups can be the outcome of an emerging strategy that is aligned to family members’ identities as well as the context in which they operate in. Implementing identity theory into the study of portfolio entrepreneurship allows considering family business dynamics and provides new insights, by detailing how and why identity drives portfolio development in the family farming context.

Keywords: Family business; Farming; Portfolio entrepreneurship; Identity; Sweden (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98542-8_14

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