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Family Firm Configurations for High Performance: The Role of Entrepreneurship and Ambidexterity (2017)
Journal Article
Hughes, M., Filser, M., Harms, R., Kraus, S., Chang, M.-L., & Cheng, C.-F. (2018). Family Firm Configurations for High Performance: The Role of Entrepreneurship and Ambidexterity. British Journal of Management, 29(4), 595-612. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12263

The performance drivers of family firms have spawned considerable research interest. Almost exclusively this research has relied on independent sets of explanatory variables in linear analyses. These analyses mask the complex interdependencies that a... Read More about Family Firm Configurations for High Performance: The Role of Entrepreneurship and Ambidexterity.

Tracing the Roots of Innovativeness in Family SMEs: The Effect of Family Functionality and Socioemotional Wealth (2017)
Journal Article
Filser, M., De Massis, A., Gast, J., Kraus, S., & Niemand, T. (2017). Tracing the Roots of Innovativeness in Family SMEs: The Effect of Family Functionality and Socioemotional Wealth. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 35(4), 609-628. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12433

By integrating literature on family functionality, family firms, and socioemotional wealth (SEW), we develop a theoretical model explaining how family functionality and SEW dimensions influence firm innovativeness. Our multigroup structural equation... Read More about Tracing the Roots of Innovativeness in Family SMEs: The Effect of Family Functionality and Socioemotional Wealth.

Coopetition in New Product Development Alliances: Advantages and Tensions for Incremental and Radical Innovation (2017)
Journal Article
Bouncken, R., Fredrich, V., Ritala, P., & Kraus, S. (2017). Coopetition in New Product Development Alliances: Advantages and Tensions for Incremental and Radical Innovation. British Journal of Management, 29(3), 391-410. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12213

Coopetition (collaboration between competitors) can facilitate product innovation, but there is still debate about how it is suited to radical or incremental innovation. This paper argues that the early and later phases of coopetitive new product dev... Read More about Coopetition in New Product Development Alliances: Advantages and Tensions for Incremental and Radical Innovation.