Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/260461 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
WiSo-HH Working Paper Series No. 58
Publisher: 
Universität Hamburg, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, WiSo-Forschungslabor, Hamburg
Abstract: 
It is a crucial question for strategic management and international business scholars if product development and (international) market development serve as two substitutive or reinforcing growth strategies in the short run. This question may be particularly pertinent to family firms, which are typically described as organisations with idiosyncratic resources and capabilities. Drawing upon recent research on resource orchestration and dynamic capabilities in family firms, we test if family firms are better able to grow via product development and (international) market development than non-family firms. Based on a comprehensive data set, we find that family firms can better capitalise on product development and (international) market development as combined growth strategies. The results of our structural equation model imply that product and (international) market development reinforce each other more strongly in family firms than in non-family firms.
Subjects: 
product development
(international) market development
growth
family firms
entrepreneurship
innovation
internationalization
dynamic capabilities
structural equation model
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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