Anuradha Basu, Eser Altinay
This article examines the interaction between culture and immigrant entrepreneurship with reference to London's ethnic minorities. It compares the cultural attributes of different ethnic groups and how these affect their entrepreneurial behaviour. The article reports and analyses the results of 163 ...
Kimberly Eddleston, Franz W. Kellermanns, Thomas Zellweger
Drawing from stewardship theory, we investigated corporate entrepreneurship in family firms. We argued that stewardship culture determinants––comprehensive strategic decision making, participative governance, long–term orientation, and human capital––differentiate the most entrepreneurial family fir...
Jean‐François Hennart
The distinguishing characteristic of international new ventures/born globals (INVs/BGs) is that they have foreign sales from the outset, or very quickly afterward. I argue that this is due to their business model. INVs/BGs sell to spatially dispersed customers distinctive niche products that incur l...
Shahzad Uddin, Jamal Choudhury
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an account of corporate governance practices in Bangladesh. This paper demonstrates that the traditionalist culture mediates the rationalist/legalist framework of corporate governance in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach A series of semi‐structur...
Joseph H. Astrachan
When a family firm is acquired, how will its culture and performance be affected by the culture of the new parent company?
Veland Ramadani, Md. Mizanur Rahman, Aidin Salamzadeh, Md. Saidur Rahaman et al.
Vimolwan Yukongdi, Nusrat Zahan Lopa
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of entrepreneurial intention. Specifically, the study investigated the extent to which personality traits or situational factors influenced entrepreneurial intention and whether the relationship among the predictor variables and the in...
Rushdi Md. Rezaur Razzaque, Muhammad Jahangir Ali, Paul Mather
Donald L. Helmich
The article looks at a study which examines the relationship between modes of administrative succession at the corporate level and the organizational criterion of growth in manufacturing companies....
Md. Uzzal Hossain, Md. Shamsul Arefin, Vimolwan Yukongdi
This study investigates the influence of Big Five personality traits, social self-efficacy, and social support on social entrepreneurial intention (SEI) and how gender differences moderate the relationships among the associated variables. Data from business students of two public universities of Ban...
Kimberly Eddleston, Roland E. Kidwell
We posit that parent–child relationships lead to subsequent leader–member exchange (LMX) differentiation in family firms. This differentiation shapes a child's behavior toward the firm. Altruism is proposed to further increase the effects of LMX differentiation on workplace behavior by fostering fee...
Joanne Gillis-Donovan, Carolyn Moynihan-Bradt
Unacknowledged power and influence in the family business is often held by women family members who do not have formal roles or titles in the business. By clarifying the role of the “invisible woman,” consultants can provide a comprehensive picture of the multiple interacting emotional forces that i...
Mahi Uddin, Rashid Ahmed Chowdhury, Nazamul Hoque, Afzal Ahmad et al.
Using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), this study examines the mediating role of Entrepreneurial Passion (EP) in the association between Entrepreneurship Education (EE) and Entrepreneurial Intentions (EI), and also the moderating role of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy (ESE) on the association be...
Mohammad Badrul Muttakin, Reza Monem, Arifur Khan, Nava Subramaniam
We investigate the role of political connections in the performance of family firms. We do so in the setting of Bangladesh, an emerging economy in which family firms are dominant and a weak regulatory environment increases the payoffs from political connections. We find that family firms perform bet...
Md. Mizanur Rahman, Léo‐Paul Dana, Iqbal Hossain Moral, Nishath Anjum et al.
Purpose Family entrepreneurship benefits women because of their economic, family, and social needs. But, as rural women, it is not much easy for them to maintain their family entrepreneurship successfully. Thus, this paper aims to explore the main challenges faced by rural women entrepreneurs in Ban...