Abstract
This chapter aims at establishing a link between family business research and regional science. Drawing from the density dependence model from organizational ecology and embeddedness theory, we develop four testable propositions to inquire about the effect of the emergence of family firms’ agglomerations in the territory on firms’ survival.
We theorize that increased family firm density reduces the likelihood of firm failure and this effect is (a) higher for family firms than for non-family firms, (b) lower in urban than in rural areas, and (c) higher in fine-grained variable environments than in stable environments. Contributions and future research implications are detailed in the concluding section.
We theorize that increased family firm density reduces the likelihood of firm failure and this effect is (a) higher for family firms than for non-family firms, (b) lower in urban than in rural areas, and (c) higher in fine-grained variable environments than in stable environments. Contributions and future research implications are detailed in the concluding section.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Palgrave handbook of heterogeneity among family firms |
| Editors | Esra Memili, Clay Dibrell |
| Place of Publication | Cham |
| Publisher | Springer, Springer Nature |
| Chapter | 30 |
| Pages | 821-846 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783319776767 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783319776750 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Density dependence
- Embeddedness
- Failure
- Family business