Family firm density and likelihood of failure: An ecological perspective

Marta Caccamo; Daniel Pittino; Francesco Chirico

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-77676-7_30

Family firm density and likelihood of failure: An ecological perspective

Marta Caccamo, Daniel Pittino, Francesco Chirico

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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.

Original language	English
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	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77676-7_30
Publication status	Published - 2019
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Density dependence
Embeddedness
Failure
Family business

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