Title: Family business, strategic planning and corporate entrepreneurship

Authors: Charbel Salloum; Jacques Digout; Laura Salloum; Catherine Mercier-Suissa; Pamela Chahine

Addresses: ESDES Lyon Business School, 10 place des Archives, France ' TBS Business School, 20 Boulevard Lascrosses, 31068 Toulouse, France ' USEK Business School, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, P.O. Box 446, Jounieh, Lebanon ' IAE Lyon School of Management, 6 Cours Albert Thomas, 69008 Lyon, France ' Kuehne + Nagel, Charles Helou Av., Sehnaoui Bldg., 5th Floor 50 & 51, 2076-2601 Beirut, Lebanon

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine whether generational involvement and perceived technological opportunities affect the corporate entrepreneurship of family firms in Lebanon. Using a sample of 85 Lebanese family firms, our results suggest that family-business-related characteristics and strategic planning have a positive relationship with corporate entrepreneurship. Our study provides important insights to regulators and practitioners interested in enhancing governance practices in family firms in Lebanon based on the impact of family-business-related characteristics and strategic planning on corporate entrepreneurship. More importantly, our paper helps us to understand how corporate entrepreneurship in a Middle Eastern country can be affected by willingness to change, generational involvement, perceived technological opportunities, and competitive aggressiveness.

Keywords: family business; corporate entrepreneurship; performance; strategic planning.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEIM.2021.113798

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 2021 Vol.25 No.1, pp.52 - 71

Accepted: 05 Apr 2019
Published online: 31 Mar 2021 *

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