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Edited by
Marita Rautiainen · Peter Rosa · Timo Pihkala
Maria José Parada · Allan Discua Cruz
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Acknowledgements
This book would not have been possible without the families who invited
us into their business lives. We have seen family businesses of all sizes
from all over the world. We are grateful to all of those family members
with whom we have had the pleasure to work during this and other
related projects that helped us to compile this book.
Writing a book requires the work of large numbers of people. It is
important to us as editors in this developing professional field to acknowl-
edge the influence and contributions of our colleagues. We want to thank
all the authors who gave their valuable data, time and effort in writing
and finishing different chapters of this book.
During the years of research, there has been financial support of several
kinds. In Finland, Foundation for Entrepreneurship Research and
Foundation for Economic Education have supported the research of this
topic in several projects, as has George David’s Endowment in funding
activities of the Edinburgh University Business School research in this
book. Special thanks to the Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy
at Lancaster University Management School for continued support. We
are particularly grateful to the Department of Strategy and General
Management at ESADE and the STEP project in Spain.
The Palgrave Macmillan press has our sincere thanks for helping us
turn our research into a publication.
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Contents
vii
viii Contents
Index 397
Notes on Contributors
xvii
xviii Notes on Contributors
Tuuli Ikäheimonen works with funding and research policy issues and is the
Deputy Director of Entrepreneurship Master Programme at the Lappeenranta
University of Technology (LUT), Finland. She has a strong background in fam-
ily businesses and family business research, especially in the fields of family busi-
ness ownership, governance and board of directors.
Markku Ikävalko is an Associate Professor at Lappeenranta University of
Technology and has been working at the university since 1999. From August
2017 onwards, he has focused on building of J. Hyneman Center, a prototype
laboratory for LUT students, and academic tasks related to strategy, entrepre-
neurship, SME management and ownership. He has decades-long consulting
experience on SMEs, strategy issues and organizational development.
Suvi Konsti-Laakso works as a project researcher in Lappeenranta University
of Technology, LUT Lahti. Her research interest relates to innovation research,
particularly on user co-creation, innovation networks and living labs. Her forth-
coming doctoral dissertation focuses on user co-creation. In addition, she is an
experienced project manager in multi-disciplinary research environment.
Antonio Malfense Fierro is a practically minded academic, active in start-up
advisory services. His research focuses on large-scale, entrepreneur-owned
business portfolios and family business and risk (Africa and other contexts). His
capabilities extend to the development, design and undertaking of bespoke mar-
ket research in challenging contexts, and executive education in the areas of
business opportunities/challenges.
Kajari Mukherjee is an Associate Professor in Indian Institute of Management
Indore (IIM Indore). Her area of research spans three distinct arenas, namely,
organization design using paradigm of complexity theory, corporate social
responsibility and family business firms. She has authored books, articles, case
studies and conference papers in these areas. She holds MSc (Mathematics),
PGDRM (IRMA) and PhD from Tata Institute of Science (TISS). Prior to join-
ing academics in 2012, she had two decades of corporate experience. She is one
of the 12 senior managers of India selected for Chevening scholarships (UK) in
2004.
Ernestine Ning is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh Business
School. She is researching the nature and role of family networks and their
effects on the entrepreneurial performance of pluriactive female entrepreneurs in
Cameroon.
xx Notes on Contributors
xxi
xxii List of Figures
xxiii
1
Introduction: Presenting the Case
for Studying the Emergence
and Development of Family Business
Groups
Peter Rosa, Marita Rautiainen, Timo Pihkala,
Maria José Parada, and Allan Discua Cruz
P. Rosa
Business School, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
e-mail: peter.rosa@ed.ac.uk
M. Rautiainen (*) • T. Pihkala
School of Engineering Science, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lahti, Finland
e-mail: marita.rautiainen@lut.fi; timo.pihkala@lut.fi
M. J. Parada
Strategy and General Management Department, ESADE Business School,
Barcelona, Spain
e-mail: mariajose.parada@esade.edu
A. Discua Cruz
Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Lancaster University
Management School, Lancaster, UK
e-mail: a.discuacruz@lancaster.ac.uk
© The Author(s) 2019 1
M. Rautiainen et al. (eds.), The Family Business Group Phenomenon,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98542-8_1
2 P. Rosa et al.
research, as they may have perceived that most of the management literature
on business groups may be less relevant in a smaller firm context (Iacobucci
2002). Interest in large-scale portfolio entrepreneurship (as displayed by
entrepreneurs and families who have developed large business groups) is only
a recent research development and is still at a pioneering stage. A number of
empirical studies have been conducted since the late 2000s on large-scale
portfolio entrepreneurs and large family business groups. These include
Balunywa’s (2009) and Malfense Fierro’s (2012) research on Ugandan and
Malawi portfolio entrepreneurs, Hatem’s (2012) research on the internation-
alization of large-scale portfolio entrepreneurs and families in the MENA
region, Rautiainen’s (2012) analysis of large-scale Finnish family business
groups and Discua Cruz’s research on family entrepreneurial teams in
Honduras (Discua Cruz 2010, 2012). These studies have demonstrated that
portfolio entrepreneurship continues to play a significant role in the contin-
ued development and renewal of large business groups, particularly large
family business groups. Its role is not confined to the early stages of business
group development when the businesses were much smaller in scale.
During the development of research into business groups and portfo-
lio entrepreneurship, family business researchers have pursued research
agendas that have overlooked the existence or prevalence of family busi-
ness groups. Instead, they have tended to concentrate their interests on
family strategy and lifecycle issues such as long-term stewardship and
orientation, overcoming problems of succession and family conflicts, and
understanding the interface between business and family. Family business
researchers have overwhelmingly treated and defined family businesses in
their analyses as single firms, rather than as groups of businesses (Rosa
et al. 2014). In setting their research agendas, the complexities of family
ownership, in particular, have not been prioritized. It is only in recent
years that family business researchers have begun to take an interest in
family business group structures, in transgenerational portfolio entrepre-
neurship and in the role of ownership in differentiating family business
groups from non-family groups (Rosa et al. 2014).
In this book, we feel that understanding the formation, nature and com-
plexity of family business groups requires a holistic understanding and inte-
gration of mainstream management business group research with research
on portfolio entrepreneurship, transgenerational family business research
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