Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/309486 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] Small Business Economics [ISSN:] 1573-0913 [Volume:] 60 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] Springer US [Place:] New York, NY [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 1307-1322
Publisher: 
Springer US, New York, NY
Abstract: 
Openness" has become an established norm in the contemporary business environment. However, despite the crucial importance of boundaries and boundary work in organization and management theory, openness—as opening up boundaries of family firms and entrepreneurial families in collaborating with external actors—has received only nascent attention in the family business domain. We introduce the notion of openness in the family business field. Drawing on the organizational boundary and family business literatures, we develop a conceptual framework of family firm openness as boundary work and examine and discuss the drivers, mechanisms, and consequences of openness in family enterprises. Then, drawing on this framework, we set out an agenda for future research that will contribute to a better understanding of openness, boundaries, and boundary work in family firms and entrepreneurial families. We conclude by discussing some contemporary examples of research on the "open family firm.
Subjects: 
Family business
Openness
Boundary work
Organizational boundaries
Social capital
Social networks
Open innovation
Ecosystems
Collaboration
Entrepreneurial family
JEL: 
M14
D8
L14
L21
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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