What is it about?
The purpose of this paper is to review family businesses as a subset of sustainable entrepreneurship. It is intended that another avenue of scholarship for the growing interest in family businesses and their continuity across generations will be outlined.
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Why is it important?
This paper presents a novel review and summary of recent literature at the juncture of family business and sustainable entrepreneurship. It is useful for directing scholars towards an avenue which has not traditionally had attention from family business researchers.
Perspectives
I hope this article gets readers to think about how family businesses can be sustained across generations and where to situate their arguments. I identified that the sustainable entrepreneurship literature, which traditionally concentrated on the environmental and social responsibility, had overlooked the preservation of a family business as a worthwhile “community” to be sustained. I concluded that there is synergy between family business and sustainable entrepreneurship research, and provided future direction for scholars to engage in a new avenue for family business research.
Dr Paul J. Woodfield
Auckland University of Technology
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This page is a summary of: Sustainable entrepreneurship: another avenue for family business scholarship?, Journal of Family Business Management, April 2017, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/jfbm-12-2015-0040.
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