We examine how controlling owners' family considerations affect their new industry entry decisions in family business groups in emerging economies. Drawing on the socioemotional wealth (SEW) approach, we conceive the new industry entry decision as controlling owners' response to pursue various...

Case studies of five major Taiwanese businessgroups are used to examine how personal relationships function in theentrepreneurial process. A review of the literature on group formation in EastAsia reveals that personal relationships (Guanxi) are regarded as anintegral part of business creation...

This study examines how political ties with rival political parties can affect a firm's strategic decisions. Focusing on a firm's portfolio of ties in addition to dyadic ties, we offer a novel contingency model that specifies how the influence of political ties on strategy varies across...

Business groups are a special type of enterprise system existing in almost every market economy. Member firms do not operate as isolated units in the markets but have institutionalized relationships with each other and work coherently as an entity. Groups play a central role in economies in...