7/23/2019 Literature Reivew the Internationalization of Family Business http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/literature-reivew-the-internationalization-of-family-business 1/29 The internationalization of Family Business: state-of- the-art and comprehensive research framework Leonardo Centeno-Caffarena (PhD student)Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain [email protected]Eduardo Bocatto (PhD student) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain [email protected]Abstract The internationalization of the family business is a new and a very limited field of study; this paper attempts to review all available literature on this topic. The study shows that only 4 countries have partially being studied. At the current stage of development, this field of research is presented with incomplete and fragmented knowledge. That is why this contribution intends to gather the main ideas presented in past research pointing out on potential lines for future research. A comprehensive framework of Family Business Internationalization is presented. Key words: Internationalization, family business, family firm, family business internationalization, literature review. INTRODUCTIONFamily business (FB) is probably an old phenomenon, but it has been adopted by the academia only two decades ago as an important and specific topic of research, bearing in mind its importance in the economy of many countries as well as its particularities (Cabrera-Suarez & García-Falcon, 1999; Ward, 1987; Harris et al., 1994), either by
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7/23/2019 Literature Reivew the Internationalization of Family Business
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Gallo & Sveen (1991) Key aspects of FBI, strategic management model of Hax & Majluf (1984), FB (ownership, andcompany culture), organizational structure, firm life cycle stage (p. 182-188)
Swinth & Vinton (1993) Brief literature review on international joint venture, FB’s theory (groups, FB system, culture,strategic issues of FBs in international joint ventures) (p. 20-26)
Gallo & Garcia-Pont (1996) Literature review on the different theories on internationalization of firm, as well as consideringdifferent countries and sectors, and the way it is measured; also the particularities of FBs and SMEs
(p. 148-149)Okoroafo (1999) Literature review on the internationalization of the firm, FB and small firms (p. 148-150)
Davis & Harveston (2000) The eclectic model, resource-based view (RBV), organizational learning, and sequential model(Uppsala) (p. 3-5)
Zahra (2003) Literature review on intangible resources, stewardship perspective, altruism, strategic risk,ownership, and family involvement (p. 498-500)
Gallo, Tapies & Cappuyns(2004)
Literature review of empirical financial structure and policies (6 researches) p. 304
Gallo, Ariño, Máñez &Cappuyns (2004)
A brief literature review of FBI papers, FB literature (focus on generation propensity tointernationalize), and strategic alliances (p. 2-3)
Graves & Thomas (2004) Literature review on 4 perspectives of internationalization (economic, process, relational, andcapabilities) (p. 9-11)
Harju & Heinonen (2004) Strategic alliances and studies on FB
Fernandez & Nieto (2005) Eclectic, resource-based view (RBV), organizational learning, and sequential model (Uppsala) (p.78-80)
Cabrera-Suarez & Olivares-Mesa (2005)
Based on other studiesInternational studies
Bibliographic sources of FBs internationalization studies
Source of publication Number of
papers
includedFamily Business Review 7
Working Paper 3
Journal of Business Venturing 1
International Journal Globalisation& Small Business 1