Cristina BettinelliUniversity of Bergamo | UNIBG · Department of Business Administration
Cristina Bettinelli
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Family firms often adopt brand strategies based on their family status to convey messages of ethics and integrity to their external stakeholders. Research has highlighted the positive influence that family-based brands exert on corporate reputation and related organizational outcomes, yet they may become a liability in circumstances of scandals. In...
In the family business system, the family and business subsystems overlap, thereby reciprocally and dynamically influencing each other. When a son- or daughter-in-law enters the family, the equilibrium of the family business system alters in terms of conflicts and emotions. In this study, we embrace family systems theory to conceptually devise how...
To take stock of the literature on identity in family firms (IFF), we examine 122 journal articles published between 2006 and 2020. We then develop a thematic map to help scholars understand the structure of IFF studies and the direction that IFF research is taking. Providing a consistent vocabulary and categorization, the thematic map serves to st...
We investigate the corpus of literature on firm exit by means of a systematic literature review (SLR) which yields a final sample of 142 journal articles for the period 1991–2020. The phenomenon of firm exit is explored from a variety of perspectives: business exit; exit at the individual entrepreneur level; exit from specific markets; exit from fo...
The interplay between internationalization and digitalization (IDI) is a relatively young research domain that is finding its way into numerous academic journals, which motivates us to systematically portray the proceedings and evolutions of this interplay over time, analyze its methodological and theoretical background and, more importantly, provi...
A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10997-021-09576-8
Research on business model innovation (BMI) processes is blossoming and expanding in many directions. Hence, the time is ripe to summarize and systematize this body of knowledge for the benefit of current and future BMI scholars. In this article, we take stock of the current literature to clarify the concept of a BMI process, develop a categorizati...
The literature on conflict and cohesion in social relationships in family firms has developed rapidly in recent decades. To take stock and provide directions to move this flourishing research area forward, we conduct a systematic review of the literature. We examine the prevailing conceptualizations of conflict and cohesion in social relationships...
Purpose
The authors develop a systematic literature review of research on family multinationals, i.e. firms owned by one or more families that engage in foreign direct investments (FDIs). Building on the examination of past and current research, the authors develop an integrative framework and identify directions to advance this area of research....
This literature review analyzes studies that deal with the meanings that consumers form about firms’ family nature. Through the analysis of 83 papers, we highlight the importance of firms’ family nature from consumers’ perceptual, social, and cultural perspectives, at the micro, meso, and macro levels. Beside the common meanings that consumers atta...
We explore how family-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) control their investments abroad: through full ownership (wholly owned subsidiaries) or sharing the ownership with other partners (joint ventures). Focusing on the role of family control (family members as CEO and/or board chair) and three dimensions of distance (cultural, geogra...
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Special Issue in Small Business Economics Journal.
DEADLINE: Manuscripts must be submitted by Sunday January 20, 2019, to sbej.si.exit@gmail.com
Although the literature on consumer (or user) entrepreneurship is flourishing, research has focused on sources of product innovation as a driver of consumer entrepreneurial venture establishment and overlooked sources of cultural innovation. By drawing on the theory of cultural innovation, this paper provides a case study on the emergence and rise...
Gender diversity in family firms is increasingly attracting the attention of scholars across several fields. Despite this, there are few literature reviews that synthesize these research streams in the context of family businesses. To fill this gap, we examined the literature on gender diversity on the boards of family businesses by providing some...
This paper is the first in a JSBM special issue on entrepreneurship in family firms, i.e., the firm-level entrepreneurial activities and attitudes that occur when a family is considerably involved in an established organization. We provide a systematic literature review of 109 articles written on this growing issue, based on a framework that highli...
This chapter concludes our work by summarizing all the results derived from the analyses illustrated and discussed in the previous chapters. This chapter contributes to the knowledge of business model innovation (BMI) in three ways. First, we review the integrative framework related to the drivers, contingencies, and outcomes of BMI that was comple...
This chapter categorizes the 156 papers included in our systematic analysis according to the disciplines to which they belong. Our thematic and ontological analyses identified five different disciplines dealing with BMI: strategic management, organizational studies, marketing, and entrepreneurship. In addition to these, we have the practice-oriente...
The second chapter of this book focuses on the conceptualization of a BM and particularly on the definitions and boundaries of BMs that the literature has proposed over the last 15 years. In the first part of this chapter, we propose different definitions of BM categorized according to: the conceptual abstraction (i.e., strategic, narrative, proces...
This chapter introduces a multilevel analysis of BMI that flows from the thematic and ontological analyses of the 156 papers included in the systematic literature review. Five different levels of analysis emerged from the studies: individual (e.g., entrepreneurs and employees); team (e.g., top management); firm (e.g. companies and organizations), n...
The third chapter is the core of this book and it introduces a fine-grained ontological exploration of BMI. Specifically, this chapter focuses on the results of our systematic literature review and the related thematic and the ontological analyses of the 156 papers selected for this research. With the help of thematic maps and ontological tables, t...
The first chapter of this book introduces the importance of studying business model innovation (BMI), the methodology we applied to study the subject, and specific statistics about the literature published in academic and practice-oriented journals in the last 15 years. Specifically, this chapter offers an overview of the processes followed for our...
This book presents a systematic literature review of 156 published papers on business model innovation (BMI). The aim is to identify and integrate the different theoretical perspectives, analytical levels, and empirical contexts in order to deepen understanding of this complex phenomenon. The authors conduct an inductive thematic analysis based on...
We investigate whether and how process innovation of small enterprises is influenced by allying with another firm. Drawing on resource-based view of the firm and integrating findings from studies on the liabilities of age and newness, we argue: 1) for a direct association between strategic alliances and process innovation, and 2) in favor of a mode...
In this paper we investigate a sample of 122 Italian manufacturing small to medium-sized family firms, and analyse the effects of the degree of family involvement on their decisions to invest in psychically distant countries. Our findings indicate that higher family involvement tends to correspond to a lower number of foreign direct investments in...
This paper focuses on the interaction between internal and external factors explaining performance of small and medium-sized family firms. We used framework foresight to suggest how learning and internal factors such as CEO’s origin, tenure and turnover, could affect the firm’s reactions to one particular external factor, economic recession. The pa...
This paper examines the factors that affect firm performance in a sample of 376 small- and medium-sized Italian enterprises over the period 2000-2010. It looks in particular at changes in business models and investments in intangibles. We compared firms that continued to be managed through an existing business model with matched firms that changed...
The present chapter is devoted to the concept of Corporate Family Entrepreneurship (CFE) and aims at reviewing past literature and trying to propose where research should go in such a field of studies. Recent efforts have been made to review extant knowledge on the topic (McKelvie, McKenny, Lumpkin, & Short J., 2014) we continue the debate by explo...
In this paper we investigate a sample of 162 Italian manufacturing small medium family firms, and analyse the effects of the degree of family involvement on the Foreign Direct Investment decision. Our findings indicate that the extent of family involvement tend to reduce the propensity to invest in psychically distant countries. Additionally, famil...
In this monograph we focus on family entrepreneurship and offer tutorial coverage of the subject, research retrospectives as well as a state-of-the-art review. The core of this contribution is family entrepreneurship, a developing field that studies entrepreneurial behaviors of family, family members and family businesses by taking into account the...
This paper examines the factors that affect firm performance in a sample of 376 small-and medium-sized Italian enterprises over the period 2000–2010. It looks in particular at changes in business models and investments in intangibles. We compared firms that continued to be managed through an existing business model with matched firms that changed t...
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to focus on how investments in research and development (R&D) and advertising affect the performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) during recessions.
Design/methodology/approach
– Contingency theory is applied to a data set of 376 Italian clothing SMEs during the period 2000-2010 to test wheth...
This interview reports a question-and-answer session held during the E-lab Symposium 'Entrepreneurship Today' at the University of Bergamo. It featured the participation of Alain Fayolle and Shaker Zahra. These two leading scholars answered questions from participants, highlighting multidisciplinary approaches. Alain Fayolle is Entrepreneurship Pro...
L'articolo si propone di fornire un'analisi empirica volta all'identificazione dei fattori di efficacia dei Parchi Scientifici. L'analisi si articola attraverso la disamina dello stato dell'arte per arrivare a formulare delle ipotesi. Esse vengono quindi testate su due database costruiti l'uno da nostre rilevazioni e l'altro grazie alla collaborazi...
This study addresses the call for the development of team effectiveness scales that take team context into account. It develops and validates a measurement scale for effectiveness in the specific context of boards of directors in family firms. Results from a validation study based on 90 family businesses indicate that even if board task performance...
The focus here is on the boards of directors in family businesses. Reflecting on this subject could help entrepreneurs understand how to manage and successfully develop their enterprises. The guiding questions in this work are: • Given the premise that the board of directors in a family business is a structure that can help steer a business, family...
Offering an integrated approach, this study examines the relationship between board composition and board processes in Italian family businesses. The potential beneficial effects of outside board members on board processes such as effort norms, cohesiveness, and use of knowledge and skills are highlighted. Using a sample of 90 family business direc...
The existent literature ascribes a company‘s dynamism to some specific company characteristics. In 2003, a deep company law reform in Italy introduced the possibility to modify radically their corporate governance organization. Starting from this event we have collected a dataset composed of more then 35,000 joint-stock corporations incorporated in...
In this article we make a comparative analysis of corporate governance laws with respect to boards of directors and directors' duties in ten European countries (Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Portugal, Greece, Ireland, The Netherland and the United Kingdom). The analysis focuses on corporate governance and directors' duties for companies l...
The objective of this article is to analyze how Italian Firms comply with the Internal Audit rules regarding the administrative liability of entities and to explain what the effect on the organizational structure was. In particular we collected data from 21 companies listed on the S&P/MIB index by sending a questionnaire to each Internal Audit Dire...
This article aims at defining a tool to measure board effectiveness in family businesses. After reviewing the literature on family business and on corporate governance, a list of board tasks (items) is defined. This list is submitted to 84 Italian family business directors for board self-evaluation. In order to validate this self-evaluation tool, t...
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue in Small Business Economics
UNDERSTANDING FIRMS’ EXIT ROUTES:
The role of strategies, approach, timing and context.
Special Issue Editors:
Elena Cefis, Alex Coad, Orietta Marsili, Cristina Bettinelli,
DEADLINE: Manuscripts must be submitted by Sunday January 20, 2019, to sbej.si.exit@gmail.com
SEE Preprint inside the project for all the details
Audencia Business School is happy to host a paper development workshop on January 24&25, 2017.
Links to the calls for paprs of the special Issues:
- “From Family to Families: Pushing Family Entrepreneurship Forward”: Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Kathleen Randerson, Hermann Frank, Clay Dibrell, and Esra Memili. Deadline April 31st, 2017.
http://www.ent.aom.org/images/calls/CFP_SI_ERD_FE_FINAL.pdf
- “Parenthood and Entrepreneurship”: Journal of Family Business Strategy, Kathleen Randerson, Cristina Bettinelli, Alain Fayolle, and Alistair Anderson. Deadline April 31st, 2017. http://www.ent.aom.org/images/calls/Parenthood_and_Entrepreneurship_CFP_FINAL.pdf
- “Families, Communities, Institutions and Entrepreneurship”: Claire Seaman, Céline Barrédy, Kathleen Randerson, Josh Daspit. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, Deadline May 31st, 2017.
http://www.ent.aom.org/images/calls/CFP_SI_IJEBR_final.pdf
For more information about the workshop, please contact me at kathleenranderson@yahoo.com
