By combining literature on dialogues and strategy as practice, the purpose of this paper is to explore the role of family business owners’ strategic dialogues. Relying on a case study approach we follow the strategic dialogue in two family firms over a period of four years. Our results lead to...

Corporate value statements - a means for family-controlled firms to monitor the agent?

The dynamics of path dependence on the organizational and the industry level: MoDo and the Swedish pulp and paper industry 1872-1990

In this paper we look at the German newspaper Rheinische Post (RP) which was founded directly after WWII as a license newspaper. Based on our findings from Rheinische Post, we argue that the historical contextualization of identity procewspaperss studies needs to be enhanced. We propose going...

Supporting entrepreneurship in an urban neighbourhood context: A review of German experiences

Constructing family firm identity over generations: The case of the Swedish pulp and paper firm MoDo 1872-1990

Family firms are special! The jury still seems to be divided when it comes to family firms superiority (cf Andersson and Reeb, 2004 vs Miller et al., 2007), but most commentators agree that there is something unique about family firms as a group. This uniqueness is often referred to as the...

Recent publications among family business scholars reveal an emerging interest to investigate questions related to marketing communications and brand management. An underlying question for this research is whether, how, and under what circumstances the portrayal of a family business identity...

The notions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability have developed into common features of the public, political, and business discourses. To assist in the achievement of sustainable business practices, an important part of research is to learn more about what enables and...

We look at the potential of novelists to be producers of entrepreneurship and the novel as a potential carrier and product of entrepreneurship. Our argument is that some novelists challenge established norms and institutions and that some novels can be seen as products that aim to destroy the...