Multidimensional Aspect of Corporate Entrepreneurship in Family Business: History
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Arif Imam Suroso

Corporate entrepreneurship (CE) research in family businesses or SMEs is sparse in Scopus-indexed journals. A thorough discussion is presented that touches on actors, variables consisting of behaviors and activities, and outcomes in the form of financial and non-financial performance. 

  • corporate entrepreneurship
  • family business
  • small and medium enterprise
  • structured literature review
  • bibliometric analysis
  • entrepreneurial orientation
  • firm performance

1. Introduction

The innovation process consists of developing new products, services, processes, and business model innovations.

The strategy formulation process consists of internal and external strategies for the sustainable regeneration and renewal of the company.

Corporate entrepreneurship (CE) is essential for a family business for its long-term durability (Eddleston et al. 2012), and it is significant for the entrepreneurial spirit of an individual manager in exploring all opportunities and business ideas (Hornsby et al. 2009). Most researchers state that managers from family groups have high motivation to advance the company, and non-family managers are associated with two categories: motivation and behavior (Kotlar and Sieger 2019). The knowledge and expertise of a manager are not always available in family businesses because the family members or the owner will recruit several managers from outside as talent (Gedajlovic et al. 2004). Research on CE in family businesses involves both internal and external managers or top management teams (TMT).

Family firms can be divided into three elements, i.e., ownership, control, and management, which can have positive or negative consequences for the company (Villalonga and Amit 2006). In terms of ownership, this may be direct for a shareholder of a company or both direct and indirect control for the appointed management of a company or a board of directors (Gonzalez et al. 2019). The director, chairman, or CEO is the highest-ranking leader in the company, and their title depends on the level of the company and the size of the company. Family companies or SMEs are usually led by a director from the family or from outside.

2. Development and Findings

Geographical analysis of published articles considers the distribution of published articles by country and the relative citations by country ( Figure 1 ). The criteria included in VOSviewer are a minimum number of four articles and four citations in one country. In this analysis, there are eight countries with the highest number of articles, the United States with eleven articles, and the UK with seven articles. The highest number of citations came from the USA, with 328 citations, and the second highest was from Germany, with 193 citations. For Asian countries, the most articles were from Malaysia, with 5 articles with 46 citations, and Iran, with 5 articles with 28 citations.

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Figure 1. Documents and citations of selected countries (VOSviewer elaboration).

The following analysis considered the publication sources of several articles, with the criteria of a minimum number of two articles and two citations for each source ( Figure 2 ). The data indicated that the most prevalent sources were Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice , the Journal of Management Studies , and the International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal , with as many as three articles. The highest number of citations was generated by Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice , with 172 citations, followed by the Journal of International Entrepreneurship , with 82 citations, and the International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal , with 54 citations.

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Figure 2. Documents and citations of selected sources (VOSviewer elaboration).

Article analysis was concluded by dividing the articles based on the actors (first column), attributes (second column), and outcomes (third column). The analysis of all articles is presented in Table 1 .

Table 1. Corporate entrepreneurship variables.
Actors Attributes Outcomes
Chairman/CEO/Director: 11 articles (Ling et al. 2008; Cucculelli and Bettinelli 2015; Naldi et al. 2015; Calabrò et al. 2016; Chen and Nadkarni 2017; Hughes and Mustafa 2017; García-Sánchez et al. 2018; Riviezzo and Garofano 2018; Rehman et al. 2020; Saleem et al. 2020; De Massis et al. 2021)
Employees/Staff: 12 articles (Ripollés-Meliá et al. 2007; Toledano et al. 2010; Kuye et al. 2012; Bojica et al. 2017; Chienwattanasook et al. 2019; Aeknarajindawat 2020; Liu et al. 2020; Najmulmunir 2020; Noerhartati et al. 2020; Rehman et al. 2020; Ziyae and Sadeghi 2020; Raitis et al. 2021)
Manager/TMT: 19 articles (Hancer et al. 2009; Schmelter et al. 2010; Van Wyk and Adonisi 2012; Mustafa et al. 2013; Leal-Rodríguez et al. 2017; Martín-Rojas et al. 2017; Jahanshahi et al. 2018; Hosseini et al. 2018; Ndemezo and Kayitana 2018; Amberg and McGaughey 2019; Boukamcha 2019; Kotlar and Sieger 2019; Lee et al. 2019; Soliman 2019; Akbari et al. 2020; Garrett et al. 2020; Sakhdari et al. 2020; De Massis et al. 2021; Soares et al. 2021)
Family Members/Owner: 6 articles (Marchisio et al. 2010; Hughes and Mustafa 2017; Fu and Si 2018; Franco and Piceti 2020; Saleem et al. 2020; Fang et al. 2021)		 CE activities such as venturing, innovation and strategic renewal: 12 articles (Toledano et al. 2010; Cucculelli and Bettinelli 2015; Calabrò et al. 2016; Hughes and Mustafa 2017; Leal-Rodríguez et al. 2017; Martín-Rojas et al. 2017; Kotlar and Sieger 2019; Lee et al. 2019; Soliman 2019; Garrett et al. 2020; Sakhdari et al. 2020; De Massis et al. 2021)
Company factors of CE such as management support, work discretion, reward/reinforcement, time availability, and organization boundaries: 6 articles (Kuye et al. 2012; Mustafa 2015; Chienwattanasook et al. 2019; Akbari et al. 2020; Najmulmunir 2020; Noerhartati et al. 2020)
Entrepreneur orientation such as risk taking, innovativeness, proactiveness, aggressiveness, and autonomy: 8 articles (Hancer et al. 2009; Toledano et al. 2010; Eddleston et al. 2012; Riviezzo and Garofano 2018; Liu et al. 2020; Rehman et al. 2020; Ziyae and Sadeghi 2020; Fang et al. 2021)
Personnel and family concern such as owner gender, education, experience, knowledge, transformational CEOs influence, TMTs’ behavioral integration, age, and tenure: 8 articles (Saleem et al. 2020; Ling et al. 2008; Chen and Nadkarni 2017; Fu and Si 2018; Ndemezo and Kayitana 2018; Riviezzo and Garofano 2018; Bui et al. 2020; Thomas et al. 2020)
Human resource concerns, such as employee satisfaction, organization commitment, motivation, cultural intelligence, tolerance of ambiguity, CEO style, high-performance human resources, organizational culture, and education: 8 articles (Mustafa et al. 2013; Soleimani and Shahnazari 2013; Naldi et al. 2015; Afshar Jahanshahi et al. 2018; Fayçal Boukamcha 2019; Aeknarajindawat 2020; Franco and Piceti 2020; Soares et al. 2021)
Internal organizational factors, such as market orientation, flexibility and job satisfaction, different management functions, and work value: 3 articles (Van Wyk and Adonisi 2012; Hosseini et al. 2018; Raitis et al. 2021)
Company support, such as IT integration, technological skill, and fire safety: 5 articles (Schmelter et al. 2010; García-Sánchez et al. 2018; Amberg and McGaughey 2019; Nabeel-Rehman and Nazri 2019; Rehman et al. 2020)		 Financial performance such as ROA, ROE, sales growth, net profit, and sales growth: 9 articles (Marchisio et al. 2010; Toledano et al. 2010; Naldi et al. 2015; Bojica et al. 2017; Leal-Rodríguez et al. 2017; Fu and Si 2018; Rehman et al. 2020; Sakhdari et al. 2020; Fang et al. 2021)
Organization and company performance such as exploitation of new resources, resources new market, creating new business/service/product, competitive advantage, intangible: 16 articles (Eddleston et al. 2012; Cucculelli and Bettinelli 2015; Martín-Rojas et al. 2017; García-Sánchez et al. 2018; Riviezzo and Garofano 2018; Amberg and McGaughey 2019; Boukamcha 2019; Chienwattanasook et al. 2019; Lee et al. 2019; Nabeel-Rehman and Nazri 2019; Soliman 2019; Akbari et al. 2020; Franco and Piceti 2020; Thomas et al. 2020; Ziyae and Sadeghi 2020; De Massis et al. 2021)
Family value such as family business tradition, family business sustainability: 3 articles (Soares et al. 2021; Raitis et al. 2021; Soleimani and Shahnazari 2013)
CE performance such as enhancing innovation and creativity, innovation: 13 articles (Saleem et al. 2020; Bui et al. 2020; Liu et al. 2020; Ling et al. 2008; Hancer et al. 2009; Kuye et al. 2012; Mustafa et al. 2013; Calabrò et al. 2016; Chen and Nadkarni 2017; Jahanshahi et al. 2018; Hosseini et al. 2018; Ndemezo and Kayitana 2018; Rehman et al. 2020)
CE factors such as MS, reward/compensation, WD, TA, OB 2 articles (Hughes and Mustafa 2017; Van Wyk and Adonisi 2012)
Personnel performance such as performance-based reward systems: 2 articles (Kotlar and Sieger 2019; Mustafa et al. 2013)
Supply chain performance: 2 articles (Najmulmunir 2020; Noerhartati et al. 2020)
Market performance 1 article (Garrett et al. 2020)
Entrepreneurial orientation: 1 a

3. Conclusions and Future Research

Research on CE in family businesses and small companies is still relatively rare and only focuses on large companies or large multinational companies. In the previous studies, CE research focused on large companies, multinational corporations, and particular industries. Opportunities for conducting research in CE for family businesses and SMEs are still numerous for this community of scholars and researchers. Exploring such issues through theoretical and empirical contributions in family businesses and SMEs would be a promising avenue of future research.

There are not many instances of research in which family members of the company are regarded as actors. Research on family businesses could be comprehensive if there is involvement from family members and owners, and this could be considered in further research in the future. Scholars in the family business field have not explored the correlations among relatives as actors in the family business. According to these gaps, there are many topics and opportunities for future research in CE in family businesses.

Research on CE in family businesses will bring many benefits for entrepreneurs to raise the level of their companies from an established family business to a more reputable company. This SLR research contributes to further research demonstrating the potential for novelty in CE in family businesses, especially regarding entrepreneurship. 

The use of the corporate entrepreneurship keyword and the deepening of articles based on family businesses and SME were limited to journals indexed by Scopus, resulting in the possibility that many articles suitable for review were not included. Suggestions for further research include adding references from several other publication sources, especially to increase the depth of CE research from the family business side. 

This entry is adapted from the peer-reviewed paper 10.3390/economies9040156

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