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- Leppäaho, Tanja, et al.
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The “Unwritten Will” in Interpersonal Network Ties: Founder Legacy and International Networking of Family Firms in History
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In: The Palgrave Handbook of Family Firm Internationalization. - Cham. : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030667375 - 9783030667368 ; , s. 199-233
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this study, we explore the role of interpersonal network ties in the context of internationalizing family firms. Through two historical cases—Alhström and Serlachius—we study how the founder-entrepreneurs’ domestic and international identity-based and calculative ties emerged and further evolved within and across country borders in the transitional incumbent–successor context. By using a longitudinal qualitative approach, we were able to build on the notions of “social legacy” of founders in family firms in conjunction with their interpersonal networks and the cultivation or disruption of the more or less embedded ties by their successors over an intergenerational period of time. Our contribution is found in illustrating how the different types of interpersonal network ties of the two founder-entrepreneurs embedded in historical contingencies together worked as the mechanism endorsing the founders’ “social legacies” in the successor generations’ international networking. On the basis of our findings, we introduce the concept of international networking legacy, which becomes considered by the next generation as either an advantage or a disadvantage for their own approaches to international networking.
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- Paavilainen-Mäntymäki, Eriikka, et al.
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Getting Embedded for and during Internationalization
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- We report the findings of a study on how small- and mediumsized family enterprises (SMFEs) from rural areas in Finland get embedded for internationalization. Our data consists of 36 interviews with entrepreneurs plus secondary data. The emergent model of international embeddedness revolved around the practices, phases, and outcomes of getting embedded for internationalization. To elucidate the process of getting internationally embedded, we refer to literature on networks, entrepreneurship, internationalization, and family business.
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The Palgrave Handbook of Family Firm Internationalization
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Family Firms (FFs) form the majority of all firms around the world and they account for an enormous percentage of the employment, the revenue, and the GDP of most capitalist countries. While MNCs have long been thought of as the main contributors to international business, it is now recognised that a substantial number of family firms are active in the international arena.This handbook focuses on the features which make family firm internationalization unique. Chapters provide FF specific theories and cover the process of FF internationalization. It examines the role of network ties and provides an insight into the development of family firms that have grown into big multinationals. Importantly this Handbook equips you with a better understanding of specific features of family firms as they internationalize from or to Asian or emerging markets.Family firms offer a fruitful context to study internationalization through a process perspective, therefore this Handbook is an invaluable source of knowledge for students, scholars and policy makers in the areas of family business, entrepreneurship and internationalization.
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