scholarly journals Students’ Perceptions of Family Entrepreneurship – A Study on Family Business Academic Education

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juha Kansikas ◽  
Anne Laakkonen
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Academic Education ◽  
Business Ownership ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The University ◽  
Family Entrepreneurship

AbstractThe aim of this qualitative research is to analyze university students’ attitudes toward family entrepreneurship. The theoretical framework of the study analyzes the interaction between family business, ownership, and entrepreneurship education. 211 students from the University of Jyväskylä participated in the study during the basic business study course “Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Business Operations” in September 2007. 143 of those wrote a one page essay, either in Finnish or English, on family entrepreneurship and family business ownership. The students were told to write about the phenomena in their own words. The results were analyzed with content analysis in order to understand how to improve the development of family business entrepreneurship education. The results of the study show that family businesses are perceived through the concept of family: a family owns, works in, and manages a family business. Students perceive family businesses as small businesses that employ people locally. Entrepreneurship motivates students, but owning a family business was perceived as unattractive. The results of the study can be utilized in family business entrepreneurship education.

Economic Identities

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-45
Author(s):  
Courtney Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Business Ownership ◽  
Local Movement

Sorting out the diversity of small businesses and small- business practices begins with two seemingly simple but central questions: Who owns these businesses, and what markets do they serve? To delve into these questions, this chapter begins by examining the contextual distinctiveness of American Indians’ economic identities and their related experiences, especially in the context of capitalism. Addressing these constructions helps refine our theoretical understandings of what has been termed Indigenous entrepreneurship by following how the external shaping of Indigenous economic identity has hindered its representation as well as its expression. Family business ownership is highlighted here, followed by an examination of issues for tourism businesses, including buffering for privacy as well as complications of the “Buy Local” movement for tourism-based businesses.

scholarly journals Development model for family business successions evaluation with a South African Case Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Fidelis Emuze ◽  
Chris Adendorf ◽  
Graham Ward
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Succession Planning ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Succession Process ◽  
Successful Business

<p>Family businesses (FB) contribute between 45 and 90% to global gross domestic product (GDP). However, empirical research has raised the alarm pertaining to the need to prolong the longevity of such businesses. Findings indicate that within the next 5 years, over 50% of FB executives could retire from day to day running of such businesses. This highlights the significance of successful business successions. The dynamics around the succession process and the criteria influencing successful successions have thus engaged the attention of researchers. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to better understand the development of successors in FB. The study began with a literature survey through which a development model was identified. The study then went on to evaluate the model through an FB case study. The single qualitative case study was used to test whether the six (6) prepositions proposed in the model applied to the case that was studied. Through one-on one interviews and a qualitative data analysis, it was observed that the 6 prepositions were applicable to the FB. In other words, FB grappling with succession planning can be advised to endeavour to understand and take actions aligned with the prepositions.</p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Family businesses, Small businesses, Shareholders, Succession

Creating a Family Business: The Genesis of Rogers Family Enterprises

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
John L. Ward ◽  
Susan R. Schwendener ◽  
Scott T. Whitaker
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Business School ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Harvard Business School ◽  
Business Ownership ◽  
Family Enterprises ◽  
South Shore ◽  
Successful Entrepreneurs

Steven Rogers had always thought that someday he would like to own a business with one or both of his daughters. As his eldest daughter, Akilah, finished her final semester at Harvard Business School, she told Rogers that she would like to create with him a Chicago-based real estate venture that included buying, rehabbing and renting homes in the Englewood and South Shore neighborhoods of Chicago. Rogers quickly realized that his biggest challenge was how to equitably structure the ownership of the business. He gathered advice from family business experts and slowly began to build a plan that would benefit each member of his family. Meanwhile, Akilah assumed responsibilities associated with the business as she finished her final semester at HBS. The case ends with Rogers Family Enterprises owning its first three houses.1. Students learn how to construct an equitable business ownership plan for a family business. 2. Students learn the agreements that family businesses should have in place. 3. Students learn why successful entrepreneurs tend to be those who control the growth of their company while envisioning an empire.

scholarly journals Does Entrepreneurship Education in Family Business Affect Entrepreneurial Attitudes and Motivation?

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-118
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hasan ◽  
Thamrin Tahir ◽  
Nurdiana Nurdiana ◽  
Karuniana Dianta Arfiando Sebayang ◽  
Nur Fatwa
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Entrepreneurial Motivation ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
Entrepreneurial Attitudes ◽  
Entrepreneurial Attitude ◽  
The Family

The ability to survive a family business during the COVID-19 pandemic is a very interesting concept to study, because almost every family business has difficulty maintaining its business in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, so based on this, this study aims to analyze and reveal the influence of entrepreneurship education in family towards entrepreneurial motivation, either directly, or through mediating the entrepreneurial attitude of family business entrepreneurs in the culinary sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study is a non-experimental explanatory study on the culinary sector family business in Makassar City, South Sulawesi. The population in this study is 1,267 family businesses in the culinary sector, with a sample of 133 family businesses in the culinary sector. The findings of this study have succeeded in revealing and exploring that entrepreneurship education in the family has contributed to the formation of entrepreneurial motivation both directly and indirectly through mediating the entrepreneurial attitude of family business entrepreneurs in the culinary sector during the COVID-19 pandemic.  

THE DYNAMICS OF INDIVIDUAL ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 688-693
Author(s):  
Tommy C. Efrata ◽  
◽  
Wirawan E. D. Radianto ◽  
Junko A. Effendy ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Personal Innovativeness ◽  
Statistical Programming ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

Studies on individual entrepreneurial orientation as well as the relationship between innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking have not received much attention in the entrepreneurship literature. Therefore, this study aims to explore the relationship between the components of individual entrepreneurial orientation and examine the relationship between entrepreneurship education, individual entrepreneurial orientation, and entrepreneurial intention. The model developed was tested on 231 management and business students who have completed an entrepreneurship education program in the university. The data obtained were processed using PLS-SEM statistical programming to evaluate the outer and inner structure of the model. This study indicates that most of the arguments of the model compilers as explicitly observed in determining the effect of proactiveness on innovation have been confirmed. At the same time, risk-taking was discovered not to affect personal innovativeness. Entrepreneurship education was also proven to have affected individual entrepreneurial orientation, while only innovativeness and risk-taking were confirmed to have the ability to increase entrepreneurial intention. The findings succeeded in filling the void related to the study on the relationship dynamics between the dimensions forming individual entrepreneurial orientation. They also comprehensively complement the study model designed in the scope of individual entrepreneurial orientation, which was partially completed. Therefore, the results are expected to provide direction for educators and scholars in the area of entrepreneurship.

scholarly journals Environmental Education and Student’s Perception, for Sustainability

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gratiela Boca ◽  
Sinan Saraçlı
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Academic Education ◽  
The North ◽  
Baia Mare ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The University ◽  
Attitudes And Behavior

Environmental education and education for the environment today play an important role toward sustainability. Environmental education provided by higher education institutions has an important impact on training and preparing the future generation for a green society. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship among perception, attitude, and environmental behavior of the university students enrolled in different specialization fields (engineering electrical, mechanical, and economic). A total of 358 students participated in this survey conducted at the North Center University of Baia Mare. To collect data to measure students’ environmental education, perception, students’ attitudes, and behavior a Likert scale was used. In this study, it was revealed that students receiving academic education are involved in activities regarding environmental protection (volunteer, warning, participation, recycling of materials) using the new product and “greener” alternative energy. As a result of the t-test performed, it was put forward that there was no difference in their level of perception regarding the importance of environmental education. As a result of the correlation analysis, a positive relation was identified between the perception, attitude, and behavior variables.

scholarly journals Law and Business Students’ Attitudes towards Learning English for Specific Purposes within CLIL and Non-CLIL Contexts

Languages ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candela Contero Urgal
Keyword(s):  
Career Paths ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Law Students ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The University ◽  
Attitudes Towards Learning

English for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses are present within most non-linguistic undergraduate studies offered in Spain. In particular, the University of Cádiz has a wide range of ESP teaching being delivered in the four campuses of the institution. Whereas this ESP instruction is thought as a way to help students develop language skills to be applied to their career paths, this very practical and useful goal may not be easily recognized by certain students. While previous research has revealed students’ attitudes towards learning ESP were generally positive, little has been said on their progression throughout the whole course. The aim of the present paper is to identify Law students’ approaches to a Legal English course taught through a specific methodology. Certain teaching strategies, which are also characteristic of the Content and Language Integrated Learning approach, were applied. For that purpose, the opinions of 88 respondents were collected and analysed during the second phase of their ESP course. Results revealed that although students showed a certain level of rejection before the course started, once they became well aware of the teaching methodology, their opinion changed positively. This would definitely be influenced by promoting students’ motivation, as well as the teaching methodology applied.

scholarly journals Internalization Mediation towards the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Action and Individual Performance for the Next Generation of Family Companies in Surabaya

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Carolina Novi Mustikarini
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Mediation Process ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Entrepreneurial Action ◽  
The University

This study  examined the effect of entrepreneurial action for the performance of the next generation using the sample of students who joined the Family Business Community. In this study, there is a high contribution given by the role of entrepreneurship education in preparing the next generation in the family business. In addition, entrepreneurship education is considered possible through the process of internalization of the leaning process that is going on. For example, it is noted that entrepreneurial action can have a significant effect on the performance of the organization. In the context of the family business and entrepreneurial education at the University of Ciputra, both variables (entrepreneurial action and individual performance) are necessary to be tested and therefore, the researcher finds it possible to cary out a research that is supposed to have a contribution to the family business. This study uses a hierarchical regression analysis, to test the stages of the mediation process. The results showed that most of relationships mediate internalization Entrepreneurial Action and Individual Performance.

scholarly journals ESTRATÉGIAS DELIBERADAS OU EMERGENTES? REFLEXÕES SOBRE O PROCESSO DE FORMULAÇÃO DE ESTRATÉGIAS EM UMA EMPRESA FAMILIAR DE PEQUENO PORTE

2021 ◽  
pp. 148-169
Author(s):  
André Luiz Athayde ◽  
Carmem Lúcia Veloso Maciel
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Strategy Formulation ◽  
Small Family ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Depth Interviews

O presente estudo teve como objetivo geral analisar o processo de formulação de estratégias de uma empresa familiar de pequeno porte, gerando reflexões sobre a formulação de estratégias em empresas com essas características. Especificamente, os objetivos foram analisar a presença de estratégias deliberadas e emergentes na empresa e identificar os principais responsáveis pela elaboração de estratégias na organização sob análise. A pesquisa se caracterizou como um estudo de caso em que se realizaram entrevistas em profundidade com o proprietário e com o gerente geral da referida empresa. O material textual coletado foi analisado pela técnica de Análise de Conteúdo e interpretado à luz da teoria sobre a temática. Embora os resultados tenham evidenciado que as estratégias emergentes preponderam frente às deliberadas na empresa sob estudo, identificou-se que a elaboração estratégica na organização é deficitária até mesmo no que se refere a estratégias emergentes, destacando-se o poder de influência e de decisão do proprietário, típico de empresas familiares. O presente estudo se mostrou relevante por apresentar implicações teóricas, ao gerar reflexões acerca do processo de formulação de estratégias em empresas familiares de pequeno porte, as quais puderam ser dialogadas com achados de estudos similares prévios. Os resultados do presente estudo também apresentam implicações gerenciais, uma vez que os mesmos poderão ser analisados por gestores de empresas de mesmas características, subsidiando ajustes estratégicos em busca de vantagem competitiva. Palavras-Chave: Formulação de estratégias. Estratégias deliberadas. Estratégias emergentes. Empresas familiares. Empresas de pequeno porte.   Abstract: The present study had as a general objective to analyze the strategy formulation process in a small family business, generating reflections about strategy formulation in companies with these characteristics. Specifically, the objectives were to analyze the presence of deliberate and emerging strategies in the company and to identify the main employees responsible for strategy formulation in the organization under analysis. The research was characterized as a case study in which in-depth interviews were conducted with the owner and with the general manager of the company. The textual material collected was analyzed with the Content Analysis technique and interpreted in light of the theory on the subject. Although the results showed that the emerging strategies prevail over deliberate ones in the company under study, it was identified that strategy formulation in the organization is deficient even with regard to emerging strategies, highlighting the owner’s influence and decision power, typical of family businesses. The present study is relevant for presenting theoretical implications, by generating reflections on the process of strategy formulation in small family businesses, which can be dialogued with findings from previous similar studies. The results of the present study also have managerial implications, once they can be analyzed by managers in companies with the same characteristics, subsidizing strategic adjustments in search of competitive advantage. Keywords: Strategy formulation. Deliberate strategies. Emerging strategies. Family businesses. Small businesses.

Determinants of family entrepreneurship in the beekeeping sector

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaltrinë Bislimi
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Transition Country ◽  
Case Presentation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
General Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Family Entrepreneurship

PurposeKosovo is a transition country, and family businesses are seen as the best way to ensure its existence. The purpose of this paper is to determine the importance of beekeeping entrepreneurship in the country and the factors that affect entrepreneurship in this sector.Design/methodology/approachThis research was developed through a case presentation where interviews with beekeepers from different cities of Kosovo were conducted. Because this research was conducted during the pandemic situation COVID-19, a total of 32 beekeepers agreed to give interviews, of which 30 were males and 2 were females. The interviews were conducted from March to May 2020. All interviews were recorded to obtain all the relevant details during data processing. All respondents agreed that their names could be made public. The interviews were conducted in Albanian language, and their duration was from 32 min to 1 h and 40 min. The questionnaire for the interview in total contained 25 questions.FindingsBeekeeping in Kosovo runs entirely as a family business. Only 12 out of 32 respondents inherited the business from their families, while others started this business mostly out of curiosity. 59% of the respondents consider beekeeping as their primary income, while 32 percent as the only source of income. Only 9% of the respondents have less than 30 hives, and the beekeeping income does not have a big impact on their total income. Beekeeping is considered a dangerous business that forces beekeepers to have a second job. The most common risks are climate change and bee diseases. However, although they have a second job, their highest income derives from beekeeping. Education has the biggest role in the development of this business, while experience and technology do not play a significant role.Research limitations/implicationsThe number of respondents is small compared to the total number of beekeepers in Kosovo, so a larger number of beekeepers could give more accurate results. In addition, there is no general data on the impact of the beekeeping sector on the economy, especially on the role of this sector in reducing the unemployment rate.Originality/valueThe study adds value to the importance of artisan family businesses. Knowing the importance of family businesses, this study makes a great contribution to determining the factors that affect the development of beekeeping entrepreneurship as family business.

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