Entrepreneurial learning in multigenerational family business succession
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description: The most significant challenge faced by family businesses is to survive and carry on the legacy from one generation to the next. Within the extant body of literature, little known as to how entrepreneurial learning process could potentially help in multigenerational family businesses to succeed. The main purpose of this study is to explore the role of entrepreneurial learning contributing to the multigenerational family business succession. This study illuminates the relationship between entrepreneurial learning processes that forester the succession of intergenerational transition of family enterprise. In addition, the concept of co-creation is introduced to this study in order to further investigate the family business succession based on social theories. Further investigation of how entrepreneurial learning process may differ across the family business life cycle, and how co-creation is the key driver to create and transfer knowledge and at each succession point. A conceptual framework of entrepreneurial learning in multigenerational family business proposal are based on life cycle process theory, which comprised of three major succession stages: Pre-succession stage, Planning and Managing succession stage and Post-succession stage. These three approaches will provide the theoretical lens to the understanding of the succession in multigenerational family business. To enhance the purpose of this research, Pragmatism has been chosen for this study. Thus, it allows the research to move beyond the conceptual constraint imposed by interpretivist, positivism and realism, and adopt the most effective way of analysing the research problem, outside of the philosophical debate. Not only the pragmatist focuses on whether a proposition fit a particular ontology, but also align with the purpose and enable solutions. Interns of research methodology, this study adopted qualitative approach to explore this phenomenon. Primary qualitative data will be collected from five families…
abstract: The most significant challenge faced by family businesses is to survive and carry on the legacy from one generation to the next. Within the extant body of literature, little known as to how entrepreneurial learning process could potentially help in multigenerational family businesses to succeed. The main purpose of this study is to explore the role of entrepreneurial learning contributing to the multigenerational family business succession. This study illuminates the relationship between entrepreneurial learning processes that forester the succession of intergenerational transition of family enterprise. In addition, the concept of co-creation is introduced to this study in order to further investigate the family business succession based on social theories. Further investigation of how entrepreneurial learning process may differ across the family business life cycle, and how co-creation is the key driver to create and transfer knowledge and at each succession point. A conceptual framework of entrepreneurial learning in multigenerational family business proposal are based on life cycle process theory, which comprised of three major succession stages: Pre-succession stage, Planning and Managing succession stage and Post-succession stage. These three approaches will provide the theoretical lens to the understanding of the succession in multigenerational family business. To enhance the purpose of this research, Pragmatism has been chosen for this study. Thus, it allows the research to move beyond the conceptual constraint imposed by interpretivist, positivism and realism, and adopt the most effective way of analysing the research problem, outside of the philosophical debate. Not only the pragmatist focuses on whether a proposition fit a particular ontology, but also align with the purpose and enable solutions. Interns of research methodology, this study adopted qualitative approach to explore this phenomenon. Primary qualitative data will be collected from five families…
author: Cherdchai, A.
date published: 2020
date modified: 2026-07-24T06:01:30Z
provider: University of Westminster
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Westminster

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value: 10.34737/v25x8