Entrepreneurial orientation, learning orientation, market orientation, and organizational performance: Family firms versus non-family firms

Artikel

Firms develop and use multiple strategic orientations. However, the investigations considering more than one strategic orientation are scant and have paid scant attention to the singular context of family firms, despite the growing evidence of their special strategic behavior. To cover these research gaps, we analyze the combined effects of three strategic orientations (mainly, entrepreneurial orientation, learning orientation, and market orientation) on family firm's performance, by comparing family firms and non-family firms from Spain and Portugal. Our results show that the entrepreneurial orientation is the strategic orientation with higher impact on family firm performance, followed by market orientation, so, our work offers family firms some insights to an improved performance. In addition our work contributes to literature by corroborating the idea of strategic equifinality.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: European Journal of Family Business (EJFB) ; ISSN: 2444-877X ; Volume: 10 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 6-18 ; Málaga: UMA Editorial, Universidad de Málaga

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Management
• Subject: family firm ; entrepreneurial orientation ; learning orientation ; market orientation ; equifinality ; performance ; strategic orientation

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Hernández-Linares, Remedios ; López Fernández, María C.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): UMA Editorial, Universidad de Málaga
• (where): Málaga
• (when): 2020

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.24310/ejfbejfb.v10i1.6780
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/231727
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET