Business, Enterprise & Management
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Item Bridging the divides: a case study of collective action across Scottish university business schools to support small business(Elsevier, 2024-07-24) Cunningham, James; Hughes, Jeffrey; Hay, Allane; Greene, Francis J.; Seaman, ClaireSupport for small business is widely acknowledged as a complex issue of interrelated economic resilience and sustainability. Despite an established literature on the mechanisms through which university business schools support business, few studies have focused on relations between business schools in matters of such national importance. Our qualitative case study contributes to this limited stock of empirical knowledge by following a consortium of 16 university business schools and associated public bodies in Scotland, as they develop a national business support programme. A Networks of Practice (NofP) lens allows us to identify three processual components crucial in developing relations between entrepreneurial universities: acknowledging drivers, establishing relationships, and building a vision-based reference. These three components reveal tensions and challenges as a network of common interest forms. Fresh theoretical insights are offered on the nature of the entrepreneurial university and role of vision to bridge a fragmented higher education environment.Item Learning from family business researchers(Emerald, 2023-10-23) Ratten,Vanessa; Chrisman, James J.; Mustafa, Michael J.; Sciascia, Salvatore; Seaman, Claire; Cruz, Allan DiscuaPurpose – This article provides commentary from well known family business researchers on what they have learnt about the family business field and tips for the future. Design/methodology/approach – Well known family business management researchers were contacted in order to provide their feedback on the field of family business management. Their responses were then curated into an article that can help others learn from their advice. Findings –The family business management researchers provided suggestions on how to succeed in the field of family business management and advice for current and future researchers. Thereby helping to advance the field and provide new novel research ideas that can help science as well as practice. Originality/value –This article is amongst the first to provide verbatim advice from the leading family business management scholars. Thus, providing original and innovative ideas about what is needed in the field of family business management.Item Consciously contributing: Community engagement, philanthropy and family business(Routledge, 2022-04-08) Seaman, Claire; Bent, Richard; Seaman, ClaireCorporate citizenship is an area of the current study that considers, amongst other things, how the values of a business translate into socially responsible behaviour. Conversely, corporate citizenship can also consider the values individuals bring into the business and the impact these values may have on business behaviour. This chapter focuses on family business, taking the perspective that where the values of one family are concentrated in the leadership of a business, those values will tend to exert more influence on business behaviour, for good or ill. Family businesses vary widely in size, in sector of operation and indeed in the values they hold but family businesses are also astonishingly numerous and of considerable economic importance. Whilst there is an ongoing definitional debate, a consensus has been reached within the literature that somewhere between 65% and 80% of businesses are owned, managed, or led by family. Family businesses form the economic bedrock of economies and communities worldwide and their impact on corporate citizenship is therefore substantial. In considering how a research agenda for this area might be developed, this chapter seeks to advance thinking and to provoke both debate and ongoing research.Item Family-owned banks in Jordan: Do they perform better?(Emerald, 2022-01-10) Saidat, Zaid; Alrababa’a, Abedalrazaq; Seaman, ClairePurpose: Family ownership is very common for Jordanian businesses, leading to a high level of involvement of family members in company management. There continues to be intense discussion on the pros and cons of family ownership, particularly as it focuses corporate control within a small family group. The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of family and non-family owned banks appear on the Amman Stock Exchange over the 2016 to 2020 period.Item Women entrepreneurial leaders as harbingers of economic growth: Evidences from an emerging market of South Asia(3ciencias, 2021-08-24) Qureshi, Jawaid A.; Memon, Salman Bashir; Seaman, ClaireGlobal economy is driven by entrepreneurs operating micro, small, medium, and large-scale enterprises (M-SMLEs). This probe integrates three distinct domains, entrepreneurship, leadership, and gender, particularly women. In a previous study, one of the co-authors investigated such phenomenon that comprised motivations and pre-and-post venture challenges for women entrepreneurial leaders and devised a conceptual framework. This inquiry applies quantitative methods to empirically test and validate such framework, and contribute towards pertinent theoretical underpinning. It avails post-positivism philosophy, deductive approach, and survey method. Data was garnered from women entrepreneurial leaders of Pakistan – a growing emerging market of South Asia. The sample size includes 308 samples (comprising micro, small, and medium-scale enterprises (M-SMEs), 100+ participants from each category. The capabilities, circumstances, and behavior of M-SMEs differ than those of such leaders from large-scale enterprises; therefore, they were ignored purposefully. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique was availed for data analysis. Canons of reliability, validity, and triangulation assisted toward robust results. The findings reveal that motivation to become entrepreneur and need of situation appeared the most significant predictors for starting and leading a venture by women. In challenges before the start of business (discouragement from family and gender stereotypes, financial challenges, lack of entrepreneurial knowledge, and lack of access to market and workplace [in a male-dominated society]) appeared significant predictors in order. And in challenges after the start of business (lack of market research, lack of finance and sustainability, harassment from men, and gender stereotypes from employees) respectively appeared significant predictors of women entrepreneurial leadership.Item Entrepreneurship education in post-Soviet states: Developing programmes for hospitality and tourism students in Samarkand(Emerald, 2021-08-19) John, Leei; Robertson, Marc; Tetley, Kate; Seaman, ClaireThis paper considers a country-context where traditional entrepreneurship has not been a major part of the economy and considers current attempts to develop entrepreneurship education (EE) as a part of wider market development. We review the background to the economic development of the Post-Soviet states and link this to existing knowledge around EE. The potential routes by which EE might be developed in Uzbekistan are discussed with a focus upon hospitality and tourism education, leading to the development of a model of the six key aspects of change The potential for future research is explored and four aspects are highlighted as areas where partnership working with overseas Universities is likely to have substantive benefits. In particular, the development of quality standards and staff development are areas where partnership could have an important influence, whereas barriers within local systems and cultural resistance are likely to benefit less from a partnership approach. Whilst entrepreneurial competencies and entrepreneurial intent are both important, entrepreneurial intent is highlighted given its role in terms of individual responses to country-level initiatives. Whilst all aspects merit further research, the paper ends with a specific suggestion that future research should draw on the theory of planned behaviour to explore entrepreneurial intent. Practical implications include the proposed development of quality standards for entrepreneurship education and staff development work. The on-going evaluation of these areas is key to on-going development. Uzbekistan is a relatively under-researched area where hospitality and tourism industries are under-going a period of intense development.Item Leadership mindset and fall of once giant family-run textile exporting companies(Wiley, 2021-07-08) Qureshi, Jawaid A.; Shaikh, Abdul Manan; Seaman, ClairePakistan’s textile sector has played an utmost salient role for thriving country’s economy and has attracted greater investments by local and foreign investors. The purpose of this paper is to ascertain three once giant textile exporters, run by family-owned companies, which were chosen by global brands for outsourcing, but then they became extinct. Based on a qualitative inquiry, and departing from phenomenology and grounded theory, it uses the result of nine interviews to former companies’ leaders, applying a multiple-case designed method in the context of family business governance to ascertain the role and importance of leadership and strategy issues for their decline. The front burner issues included leader or ‘Seth’s’ (the indigenous term for owners of big businesses in South Asia, particularly India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh) management styles and policies (with dearth of professional and operational hierarchy, the hiring of ‘Yes Men’ and ‘Yes Boss’ type executives), firm’s culture and politics, human resource policies (i.e. working environment and employees’ motivation), management of financial portfolios, and other operational strategies like technology, operations and marketing, which eventually led to disastrous failures to filing bankruptcies by these three firms.Item Family entrepreneurship in communities: Social context and the creation of social value [Editorial](Emerald, 2022-03-03) Cunningham, James; Seaman, ClaireItem Integrating family, friendship and business networks in family firms(Emerald, 2021-03-23) Seaman, Claire; McQuaid, RonDesign Semi-structured interviews of thirteen family-owned and managed businesses are used to establish the patterns of networking. A detailed case study is then presented, allowing a deeper qualitative analysis of the interaction of different types of networks.Item Institutional settings and local embeddedness of European Entrepreneurial Families: An inter-regional comparison(Taylor & Francis, 2021-02-19) Martínez-Sanchis, Paula; Iturrioz-Landart, Cristina; Aragón-Amonarriz, Cristina; Radu-Lefebvre, Miruna; Seaman, ClaireThe interaction between institutional settings and Entrepreneurial Families (EFs) is two-fold. Extant literature has attempted to understand how institutional settings can affect Family Businesses’ embeddedness. Both perspectives are complementary and necessary to recognise that EFs are not only locally embedded in their territories, but they are also entrenched in institutions. Despite this, how different institutional settings impact on EFs’ local embeddedness remains unexplored. To fill this gap, we combine institutional theory and family business research to perform a qualitative investigation. Drawing on the Varieties of Capitalism institutional categorisation, an exploratory study is carried out by including four European regions from countries that are positioned as a Coordinated Market Economy (CME) (Germany), a Liberal Market Economy (LME) (United Kingdom) and two cases of Mediterranean capitalist system (France and Spain). 43 semi-structured interviews were conducted across the regions and analysed through an open-coding process. Findings unveil that EFs’ local embeddedness is conditioned by different institutional settings in different ways, namely through codified mechanisms (CME and Spain) and through nonformalised mechanisms (LME and France). These are unfolded in 20 mechanisms, which contribute to territorial policies adjustments depending on the category of institutional setting where EFs are locally embedded.