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The Moderating Effect of Family Firm Status on the Entrepreneurial Orientation-Performance Relationship: An Empirical Study With SMEs From Portugal

The Moderating Effect of Family Firm Status on the Entrepreneurial Orientation-Performance Relationship: An Empirical Study With SMEs From Portugal
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Author(s): Remedios Hernández-Linares (Universidad de Extremadura, Spain), María Concepción López-Fernández (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain)and Laura Victoria Fielden Burns (Universidad de Extremadura, Spain)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 31
Source title: Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Internationalization
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Nuno Miguel Teixeira (Center for Research in Business and Administration, School of Business Sciences, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal), Teresa Gomes da Costa (Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal)and Inês Margarida Lisboa (Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8479-7.ch004

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Abstract

Although management literature mostly reports a positive association between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance, it also recognizes that different business contexts may prompt different manifestations of entrepreneurial orientation. Considering that family firms constitute the backbone of most economies across the globe, and based on arguments from socioemotional wealth perspective, this research aims to examine the moderating effect of being a family firm on the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance. The empirical study is based on primary information obtained from the chief-executive-offices of 402 small and medium-enterprises (SMEs) from Portugal, a country located in southwestern Europe, and one that has been scantly investigated by the literature in the confluence between entrepreneurial orientation and family firms. Results show that the family firm status weakens the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and performance in the Portuguese SMEs.

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