Università della Svizzera italiana

Resource orchestration in family firms : Investigating how entrepreneurial orientation, generational involvement, and participative strategy affect performance

Chirico, Francesco ; Sirmon, David G. ; Sciascia, Salvatore ; Mazzola, Pietro

In: Strategic entrepreneurship journal, 2011, vol. 5, no. 4, p. 307-326

Drawing on the process of resource orchestration, we argue a co- alignment of multiple factors is needed for family firms to increase performance through entrepreneurship. Specifically, we posit that entrepreneurial orientation provides the mobilizing vision to use the heterogeneous yet complementary knowledge and experiences offered by increased generational involvement toward...