Competitive Advantage Development in Family Firms by Transforming Entrepreneurial Orientation Into CSR

Arzubiaga, Unai; Castillo‐Apraiz, Julen; Palma-Ruiz, Jesús Manuel

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“…Broccardo et al., 2019) for exploring EO consequences that have remained underexplored (Hernández‐Linares & López‐Fernández, 2018). Last , the present research responds to appeals for scholarship that opens the ‘black box’ of women's leadership—including social contextual factors (Hoobler et al., 2018)—through the current study's focus on family firms' unique environments (Arzubiaga et al., 2019; Mullens, 2018). The present findings comprise an important contribution because family businesses more often advance women into leadership positions (Bjuggren et al., 2018; Kubíček & Machek, 2019) but scholars have rarely explored female leadership in these companies beyond comparing male‐ and female‐led firms' perfomance (e.g.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Broccardo et al, 2019) for exploring EO consequences that have remained underexplored . Last, the present research responds to appeals for scholarship that opens the 'black box' of women's leadership-including social contextual factors (Hoobler et al, 2018)-through the current study's focus on family firms' unique environments (Arzubiaga et al, 2019;Mullens, 2018).…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Family businessess are governed by a specific set of norms, cultural features and processes that reflect how their leaders manage and deploy their resources Kellermanns et al, 2012). These particularities help explain the recent interest in exploring the EO-sustainability initiative relationship in the family firm context (Arzubiaga et al, 2019;Khan et al, 2022;Mullens, 2018).…”

Section: Eo and Family Businesses' Sustainability Initiativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Family firm entrepreneurship and sustainability initiatives: Women as corporate change agents

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Family businesses are often seen as key players in efforts to increase sustainability due to their transgenerational focus. Researchers have reported that companies strengthen their commitment to sustainability as they consolidate their entrepreneurial commitment, but the existing knowledge about drivers of family firms' sustainability choices is limited. This study sought to fill related research gaps by exploring the relationships between five entrepreneurial orientation (EO) components—risk taking, innovativeness, proactiveness, competitive aggressiveness and autonomy—and family businesses' sustainability initiatives. These companies comprise a unique research context in terms of the EO‐sustainability link due to their focus on continuity and propensity to create value for future generations. In addition, women increasingly hold leadership positions within family businesses, and studies have categorised both entrepreneurship and sustainability as gendered processes. Thus, this research also explored female chief executive officers' (CEOs) moderating role as corporate change agents who influence the EO‐sustainability initiatives relationship. Analyses were conducted using primary data collected from 195 privately held family firms in Poland. The results indicate that only one EO component (innovativeness) is significantly associated with family businesses' sustainability initiatives and that CEO gender moderates the links between two EO components (proactiveness and autonomy) and sustainability. Thus, this article contributes to the management literature by exploring the role of women leaders as change agents for sustainability in family firms. Other significant theoretical and practical implications are also discussed.

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“…Although the concept of sustainable development has been long known, more research is required to identify the mechanisms associated with the sustainability of FFs (Arzubiaga et al, 2019;Benavides-Velasco et al, 2013;Yu et al, 2015;Ernst et al, 2022). Blodgett et al (2011) and Setthasakko (2012) found that the cultural and regional context in which FFs operate affects their conduct in the implementation of sustainable activities.…”

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The state of the art in sustainability of Central-Eastern European family firms: Systematic literature review

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Gryglicka,

Martyniuk

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IER

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The aim of the systematic literature review was to assess the state of the art in sustainability and trajectories in Central-Eastern European family firms, identify the research gaps, and delineate future research avenues. Research Design & Methods:We conducted a systematic literature review of 30 articles from the Web of Science and Scopus that address the subject of sustainability in Central-Eastern European family firms. To identify the state of the art, analysis of keywords co-occurrence was employed as an analytical tool, using Biblioshiny software. Findings: We identified the most influential journals and subject areas. The research allowed for the identification of seven consistent clusters, which prove the great variety of topics in the discussion on the sustainability of family firms in Central-Eastern Europe. The findings showed vast dispersion of research interests and a lack of a single, accurate or dominant research area addressing the phenomenon in this region. Additionally, our findings revealed that the results reported in CEE countries are only partly consistent with the findings presented in Western literature or referenced in other, economically well-developed regions. Implications & Recommendations:We recommend further research on the specific characteristics of family firms and their impact on sustainable development. Moreover, the lack of comparative studies on family and non-family businesses should be addressed. There is also a need to include the cultural context of Central-Eastern Europe countries in research. Contribution & Value Added: Our systematic literature review systematizes the existing literature on the sustainability of family firms in Central-Eastern Europe, isolates main research interests, identifies future research avenues, and provides several important hints for researchers. Article type:research article

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“…Second, when talking about voluntary initiatives, and being true that Spanish government started late with the CSR discourse (Cantó-Milà and Lozano 2009), the fact remains that CSR is growing rapidly in Spain (Palma ). The voluntary nature of CSR is seen as a source of competitive advantage by Spanish companies (Jackson and Apostolakou 2010;Arzubiaga et al 2019). CSR is nowadays an important issue for a wide range of Spanish industries such as the electricity industry (González González 2010), the construction and real-estate sector (Cambra-Fierro et al 2013), the electricity utility industry (Paredes-Gazquez et al 2016), the tourism industry (Peña Miranda and Cantallops 2013), and the banking industry (Martínez-Campillo et al 2013;Sarro Álvarez et al 2007;Seguí Alcaraz 2012).…”

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Castillo‐Apraiz

2021

CSR, Sustainability, Ethics &Amp; Governance

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After the Spanish civil war (1936)(1937)(1938)(1939) and the authoritarian regime of General Franco, democracy arrived to Spain with the Constitution of 1978 (Edles 1998). Until then, there were few regulations in CSR-related areas: the level of intervention of the state in the economy was high and there was a large number of state-owned companies. Being a parliamentary monarchy, Spain evolved slowly until it joined the European Economic Community in 1986, which was an important step forward. Thereafter, many Spanish companies were privatized and they began internationalization processes-which are usually costly (Richter 2014;Richter et al. 2016;Castillo-Apraiz et al. 2019, 2020Arzubiaga et al. 2020)-across the European boarders and to Latin America (Galan and Gonzalez-Benito 2006).Nowadays, Spain is a developed country (Vives 2015; Šćepanović 2019). Spanish small and medium-sized firms' productivity is very close to the average of the EU-28 (Instituto Nacional de Estadística 2016). In fact, the Spanish economy is slowly returning to levels measured in the years before the economic crisis. This phenomenon is evidenced by a constantly growing GDP (World Bank 2018). Specifically, Spanish GDP growth rate in 2018 was 2.35% (World Bank 2018). This recovery is to a large extent the result of good economic outcomes of small and

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Competitive Advantage Development in Family Firms by Transforming Entrepreneurial Orientation Into CSR

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Family firm entrepreneurship and sustainability initiatives: Women as corporate change agents

Family firm entrepreneurship and sustainability initiatives: Women as corporate change agents

The state of the art in sustainability of Central-Eastern European family firms: Systematic literature review

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