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Absorptive capacity in family firms: exploring the role of the CEO

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dc.contributor.authorGarcés Galdeano, Lucía
dc.contributor.authorKotlar, Josip
dc.contributor.authorCaicedo Leitón, Ana Lucía
dc.contributor.authorLarraza Kintana, Martín
dc.contributor.authorFrattini, Federico
dc.contributor.departmentGestión de Empresases_ES
dc.contributor.departmentEnpresen Kudeaketaeu
dc.contributor.departmentInstitute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBEen
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-01T10:24:26Z
dc.date.available2024-03-01T10:24:26Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.date.updated2024-03-01T10:10:45Z
dc.description.abstractPurpose: Absorptive capacity (AC), the ability to leverage external knowledge for innovation, helps explain the mixed findings on family firms' innovation performance. Our research focuses on the CEO's role - whether family or non-family, and founding or later generation - in influencing AC. We also explore how firm size and environmental dynamism affect these relationships, offering insights into varying AC levels among family firms. Design/methodology/approach: OLS regression models were estimated to test the hypotheses using a sample of 364 family firms in Spain. Findings: Family firms¿ absorptive capacity is greater when the CEO is a family member, and even more so when the family CEO belongs to the founding family generation. While AC diminishes in larger family firms this effect is mitigated when the CEO is a family member. The predicted moderating effect of environmental dynamisms is not supported by the analyses. Originality: This paper adds insights about the drivers of heterogeneity in innovation among family firms, addressing recent calls for more nuanced views of how family members drive the strategic behavior of the business, and incorporating considerations of different types of family firms based on the identity of the firm CEO. The results overall support the theoretical claims, but also open up important questions for future studies.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThe author gratefully acknowledges the funding received through the TED2021-132446B-I00 (MICIN/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033) research project and the European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR and the PID2020-115018RB-C31 (AEI/FEDER, UE) research project financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the European Regional Development Funds.en
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dc.identifier.citationGarcés-Galdeano, L., Kotlar, J., Caicedo Leiton, A., Larraza Kintana, M., Frattini, F. (2024) Absorptive capacity in family firms: Exploring the role of the CEO. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-02-2023-0123.es_ES
dc.identifier.doi10.1108/IJEBR-02-2023-0123
dc.identifier.issn1355-2554
dc.identifier.urihttps://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/47605
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherEmeralden
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Researchen
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement///TED2021-132446B-I00en
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2020-115018RB-C31/ES/en
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-02-2023-0123
dc.rights© Emerald Publishing Limited.en
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectFamily firmsen
dc.subjectAbsorptive capacityen
dc.subjectFamily CEOen
dc.subjectFamily generationen
dc.subjectHeterogeneityen
dc.titleAbsorptive capacity in family firms: exploring the role of the CEOen
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