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Family Business and Entrepreneurship: Competencies and Organizational Behavior

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Family-owned enterprises go through various stages of growth and development over time once the second and subsequent generations enter the business. They present a unique set of challenges and problems, mostly due to generational transition, role confusion, different vision of the business, qualification and skills. This quantitative study aims at increasing the understanding of which competencies are relevant to family business success and how they significantly influence both organizational behavior and family dynamics. Findings highlight the importance of family business as a unique context to study organizational behavior and confirmed how family enterprises are influenced by family culture and kinship ties.

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    Cronbach’s Alpha= .858

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    The procedure verifies scale reliability in order to input the answer with a unique score.

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João Leitão acknowledges Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) for support under the Sabbatical Scholarship Program (Ref.: SFRH/BSAB/127908/2016).

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  1. Department of Business Administration, University of Verona, Via Cantarane 24, Verona, Italy

    Serena Cubico & Giuseppe Favretto

  2. Centre for Assessment, University of Verona, Via S. Francesco 22, Verona, Italy

    Piermatteo Ardolino, Stefano Noventa, Diego Bellini & Giovanna Gianesini

  3. Management and Economics Department, University of Beira Interior and CEG-IST, Covilhã, Portugal

    João Leitão

  4. University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    João Leitão

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    João Leitão

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Cubico, S. et al. (2017). Family Business and Entrepreneurship: Competencies and Organizational Behavior. In: Devezas, T., Leitão, J., Sarygulov, A. (eds) Industry 4.0. Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49604-7_17

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