THE IMPACT OF INNOVATION ON FAMILY BUSINESS SUCCESSORSHIP AND TRANSGENERATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Family enterprises comprise the majority of business organizations around the globe and provide significant economic benefit. Yet, continuity and stability with the family business rarely surpasses the second generation. This phenomenon leads to an understanding of the importance of succession. This study suggests transgenerational entrepreneurship and the opportunity for innovation with successive generations may resolve the long-term challenges that confront family businesses in transition. Transgenerational entrepreneurship occurs when families develop and implement entrepreneurial mindsets and capabilities across generations. Utilizing a sample of potential successor of family-owned businesses in the United States from MTurk, this study examines the relationships of entrepreneurial intention and opportunity for innovation on the succession decision made by the potential successor. The study also examines the moderating role of organizational contextual factors that impact the transgenerational entrepreneurship decision.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Campus Only Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Business Administration

Year dc:date.available

2017

Author dc:creator

• Heitman-Lucy, Carol Yvonne

Contributors dc:contributor

• Pearson, John

• Entrepreneurship
• Family Business
• Innovation
• Theory of Planned Behavior

Repository record dc:identifier

https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1457

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:opensiuc.lib.siu.edu:dissertations-2461