Regional influences on the prevalence of family versus non-family start-ups

• Autores: Miriam Bird, Karl Wennberg
• Localización: Journal of Business Venturing, ISSN-e 1873-2003, Vol. 29, Nº. 3, 2014, págs. 421-436
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We integrate insights from family business and organizational ecology into the entrepreneurship field by constructing a theoretical framework that explains how the regional context impacts family and non-family start-ups in differing ways. Regional count data models based on a rich longitudinal dataset reveal that while economic factors such as population size and growth in regions are primarily associated with the number of non-family start-ups, factors related to regional embeddedness, such as pre-existing small family businesses as well as favorable community attitudes toward small businesses, are more strongly associated with the number of family start-ups. Our research provides support for the notion that �the regional context� is an important yet under-theorized area for research on venture creation and family business.