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Introduction
Sami Basly is Associate Professor at the University of Paris Nanterre (France). Prior to that, he was Associate Professor at the University of Bordeaux (France) where he was an active member of the Research Centre for Family Firms. He has authored several papers and books about family firms, internationalization and digital transformation. His research focuses on family entrepreneurship, digital entrepreneurship and financial technology and innovation.
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November 2009 - November 2020
September 2006 - October 2009
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September 1998 - December 2005
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One of the most pressing issues facing family enterprises is the matter of business continuity and intra-family succession. Although these topics have been thoroughly examined in family business research, there has been a notable gap in the exploration of the role of cultural context in shaping the continuity intentions of family businesses. The pr...
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of decentralized finance (DF) and discusses how entrepreneurs can leverage it in their business activities.
Decentralized finance (DF) is a system for exchanging value without centralized intermediaries. It relies heavily on peer-to-peer lending and borrowing, decentralized...
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is an alternative financial system grounded in blockchain technology. Utilizing smart contracts, DeFi protocols emulate conventional financial services, with enhanced transparency, openness, and interoperability. While this emerging sector offers considerable prospects, it is not devoid of intrinsic hazards. This chapte...
Artificial intelligence (AI) holds the potential to be a transformative force in DeFi, offering remedies for some of its most pressing issues while augmenting the user experience. The aim of this chapter is to delve into the prospective uses of AI in decentralized finance, illustrating how this technology could help DeFi attain its desired goals of...
Blockchain technology should increase the reliability and transparency of accounting data, and therefore the confidence of the various stakeholders in this data, and more generally in accounting and auditing practices (Schmitz and Leoni, 2019). The Blockchain could even become the support for keeping the accounting ledger, shared internally as well...
The goal of this article is to investigate the influence of a family firm’s commitment to learning on open innovation. First, the research suggests that commitment to learning would allow the family firm to develop organisational knowledge useful to initiate and develop open innovations. Second, the conceptual model suggests that this relationship...
The ability of an organisation to endure in the face of critical changes in the business environment and resist disruptions and catastrophic events is a key factor explaining how to be able to manage organisational crises. The resilience of family firms is considered a major capacity that allows them to pass through difficult times and to be sustai...
We investigate how family members’ commitment to the firm affects exploratory innovation in family firms and whether firms’ value system moderates that relationship. Based on a sample of 47 French family SMEs, findings revealed that commitment is negatively related to firms’ exploratory innovation, and that building a firm’s value system has a posi...
Les technologies numériques transforment nos sociétés, nos économies et notre environnement. Aujourd'hui, le Web 3.0 est en train de révolutionner l'Internet. Le Web 3.0 est la troisième itération du réseau Internet permettant aux contenus et aux données d’être distribués sur de nombreux ordinateurs (ou nœuds) au lieu d’être stockées dans des serve...
Among the various goals a family business pursues, the firm’s continuity across generations is one of the major goals of owning families to the point that family succession, whether planned or achieved, is considered necessary to define this type of organization (Ward 1988; Chua, Chrisman, and Sharma 1999). This research aims at seeing if family bu...
Ce mémoire fournit une synthèse des travaux menés par l’auteur autour de trois thématiques centrales que sont l’internationalisation de l’entreprise familiale, ses spécificités, ses déterminants et son processus ; le renouveau stratégique de l’entreprise familiale et les facteurs de sa résilience ; les outils de contrôle et de communication financi...
La technologie Blockchain permettrait d’accroître la fiabilité et la transparence des données comptables, et par conséquent la confiance des différentes parties prenantes dans ces données, et plus généralement les pratiques comptables et d’audit (Schmitz et Leoni, 2019). La Blockchain pourrait même devenir le support pour la tenue du journal et du...
Blockchain emerged as the backbone of Bitcoin, but it has now evolved beyond digital currencies and is changing the way firms and entrepreneurs do business (Hughes, Park, Kietzmann, Archer-Brown, 2019). In particular, Blockchain technology is changing the finance industry (Harvey, Ramachandran, Santoro, 2020). Banks and other financial institutions...
The concept of metaverses has been around for a few decades. It is the idea that technology will help us to create a new world in which we can be who we want to be. A metaverse is a digital environment that is completely persistent, where people can interact with each other and with virtual objects. The term was coined by Neal Stephenson in his 199...
Les épisodes de crise interrogent continuellement la capacité des Hommes et des organisations à encaisser le choc, à rebondir et à apprendre, en un mot à être résilient. Aussi, avec le relatif recul, la dernière crise économico-financière peut-elle apporter des enseignements utiles dont peuvent profiter les entreprises face à la crise de la Covid 1...
This research investigates the influence of family members’ commitment to the firm, in family firms, on firms’ exploratory innovation. Besides, the moderating role of building values system is considered, as we believe that it would negatively moderate the relationship between family members’ commitment and exploratory innovation. Based on a sample...
The ability of an organization to endure in the face of critical changes in the business environment and resist disruptions and catastrophic events is a key factor explaining how to be able to manage organizational crises. The resilience of family firms is considered a major capacity that allows it to pass through difficult times and to be sustaina...
Notre recherche porte sur la politique RH en matière de gestion de fait religieux comme élément de marque employeur. Nous étudions son impact sur l’attrait ressenti pour une entreprise par un futur postulant. Notre étude repose sur une méthodologie qualitative et quantitative utilisant la méthode des scénarios auprès d’un échantillon de 245 étudian...
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This research investigates the effect of the key socio-emotional goal of family members’ identification with the firm on international diversification. Furthermore, it examines the moderating effect of a family firm’s learning orientation – expressed in terms of a firm’s exploratory and reproductive orientations - on the relationship between this g...
Most of the literature about dividend policy have dealt with dispersed ownership firms (Isakov & Weisskopf, 2013) while most firms around the world are controlled by large shareholders (Faccio & Lang, 2002) whose preferences undoubtedly affect dividend payouts (DeAngelo, DeAngelo, & Skinner, 2007). Particularly, as families are the most common type...
Purpose
Notwithstanding a number of studies that led to the development of different performance measurement systems incorporating contingency factors, very scarce research on the variety of balanced scorecards (BSCs) indicators used in performance management were carried out in France. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to investigate if th...
While the goals of long term sustainability and survival were thoroughly studied in family firms’ literature, to the best of our knowledge, rare studies had investigated the influence of values on the capacity of family firms to be resilient. In addition, this likely relationship is highly contingent on cultural and national contexts, as family val...
This research aims at observing how the owner-manager’s sins and emotions influence the pursuit of socio-emotional goals and how these goals might cause the family firm’s fall and also allows it to recover after a tough crisis. More precisely, the present paper first highlights consequences of greed and hubris, two distinctive entrepreneurial chara...
The present research examines the value relevance of accounting earnings data disclosed by a sample of French family and non-family firms. The major goal of this paper is to find if the value relevance of accounting earnings for investors depends on the nature of the firm. In addition, it intends to check if accounting earnings relevance varies in...
While the goals of long term sustainability and survival were thoroughly studied in family firms’ literature, to the best of our knowledge, rare studies had investigated the influence of values on the capacity of family firms to be resilient. In addition, this likely relationship is highly contingent on cultural and national contexts, as family val...
A rarely studied issue in the family business internationalization literature is international diversification. While internationalization had been studied mainly through the lens of exports considering that family firms are unable or unwilling to opt for more sophisticated entry modes abroad, other strategic options such as diversification had unf...
L’implication de la famille influence-t-elle les exportations dans la PME familiale ? La littérature semble conforter cette thèse même si le sens et l’intensité de cet impact restent controversés. Pour concilier les points de vus divergents, notre recherche tente d’évaluer le rôle de l’orientation internationale du dirigeant comme variable modératr...
This paper analyzes the role of the owning family’s socio-emotional goals in explaining the level of exports in family small and medium enterprises (SMEs), while investigating the influence of family business essence as an antecedent of socio-emotional goals. A survey studying 46 French family SMEs and a model using partial least squares structural...
Despite the prevalence of family businesses around the world, research on their contribution to the digital economy is still needed. A primary appraisal of the characteristics of the family business and the features of digital entrepreneurship suggests that the two phenomena are conflicting. Indeed, the most common descriptions of family businesses...
· Purpose: The purpose of this article is to contribute to the family business literature that have analyzed and explained the relationship between socio-emotional wealth (SEW) and family business resilience.
· Design/methodology/approach: The research is grounded on a unique case study carried out in a participant observation setting.
· Findings...
Notwithstanding a number of studies that led to the development of different performance measurement systems incorporating contingency factors, very scarce research on the variety of Balanced Scorecards (BSCs) indicators used in performance management was carried out in France. Accordingly, the aim of this research is to investigate if there is a s...
This research offers an explanatory model of family business continuity intentions where it is hypothesized that high family influence on the firm implies a high commitment of family members to the firm and thus a high desire to sustain the family firm in the long run. In addition, the model emphasizes the mediating role of family members' identifi...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assessthe probable influence of some of the emotional costs and returns expected by owners on their family business sale decision; and examine if the perceived economic environment during the economic and financial crisis of 2008 had an impact on the intention to sell their family business.
Design/methodolo...
In less than twenty years, the digital economy implied a crucial upheaval for economies worldwide. Today, the largest global firms are no longer those operating in the industrial sectors but those belonging to the digital economy. Surprisingly, despite the importance of family businesses in France and around the world, research about their contribu...
The majority of businesses in the Arab world are family businesses (PricewaterHouseCoopers, 2016). As these firms, whether medium-sized or larger ones, play a significant role in employment and wealth creation, they are the main growth engine of these countries. However, despite their prominence, we have very limited knowledge about the specific ch...
This book focuses on topics such as the cultural specificity of Arab family businesses with regard to shaping their governance and management; the influence that specific values in the Arab world could exert on the management of family businesses; how spiritual and religious values influence business in Arab family firms; and the role of emotions i...
This chapter offers a review of key economic factors and challenges shaping the economic context in which Arab family businesses operate. Growth, exports, foreign direct investment (FDI), unemployment and countries’ governance are the main aspects analysed in this chapter. In a second step, the major economic opportunities and threats that Arab fam...
There is scarce knowledge about family businesses in the Arab world region as scant research effort has been directed towards studying this specific context. Although this may be explained by the limited number of family business researchers originating from this region and choosing it as a field of study, this gap remains surprising. Indeed, durin...
Does the family involvement affect exports in the family firm? The literature seems to support this view even if the direction and magnitude of this impact remains controversial. Drawing on the perspectives of agency [Chrisman et al. 2004; Schulze et al. 2001] and stewardship as applied to family firms [Davis, Schoorman and Donaldson 1997] and also...
This contribution seeks to explain the internationalization degree of family firms in a knowledge-based view. Through an empirical study of a French sample of family and non-family firms, variables dealing with organizational learning and knowledge development are used within an explanatory model. The nature of organizational learning, the practice...
This paper aims to contribute to the new stream of literature dealing with knowledge in family firms by analyzing the role of organizational knowledge in the internationalization of this type of firm. First, the study will try to emphasize the specificity of family firms as for double-loop learning, knowledge sharing, knowledge tacitness and emerge...
The financial behavior of the family firm is a recurring topic in the literature. Hirigoyen's pioneer research (1984) reveals the specificity of the financial behaviors of industrial family medium-sized companies compared to those of the other categories of firms. This type of firms set out effective structures enabling them a better financial mana...
Purpose – Owing to its specificities, the family small and medium enterprise (SME) shows a particular behavior as for the creation, development, sharing, protection and transmission of knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to study the specificities of the processes of knowledge creation and development in family firms. Design/methodology/approac...
The aim of this theoretical contribution is to analyze the processes of organizational learning and knowledge development within the small and medium sized family firm. Due to its founding characteristics, family SME seems to be a closed, hermetic and rigid organization. Besides, the specificity of mechanisms of learning and knowledge management, i...
Rares sont les recherches qui ont explicitement conçu l'internationalisation de la firme comme un processus d'apprentissage organisationnel. Tout au plus, ce phénomène a-t-il été considéré comme sous-jacent au processus d'engagement des ressources à l'étranger. La présente contribution d'ordre théorique tente une analyse de l'internationalisation à...
La présente contribution, à portée théorique, vise à analyser l’entreprise familiale selon deux
points de vue, organisationnel et stratégique. Il s’agit d’abord de montrer l’existence d’un
particularisme de l’entreprise familiale s’agissant de sa configuration de propriété et de contrôle.
L’objectif consiste à analyser ce qui rend spécifique l’entr...
O objetivo desta pesquisa � estudar a internacionaliza��o da PME familiar baseando-se, por um lado, na abordagem pelo conhecimento e em particular do aprendizado organizacional e por outro lado, na literatura relacionada �s especificidades da empresa familiar. Do ponto de vista teorico faz-se uma articula��o das teorias do aprendizado e da cria��o...
Despite the profusion of studies concerning knowledge-based processes within the firm, rare studies tried to analyse them for the family business. Due to its specificities, this entity shows a particular behaviour as for the creation, development, sharing, protection and transmission of knowledge. Habbershon and Williams (1999) initiated the resear...
