Family firms, characterized by fervent entrepreneurial activity, provide a new avenue for examining strategic renewal. Despite strategic renewal’s recognition as a response to environmental changes in all firms, few researchers have investigated this process with family firms. This paper attempts to fill that gap by using the Crossan’s 4I model to examine knowledge integration in family firms. We analyzed three case studies which demonstrated the unique characteristics of strategic renewal in family firms: first, the entrepreneur’s role in starting and feeding the process through knowledge integration; second, the specificities of the process and the junction of some of its phases. This paper extends the Crossan’s 4I model to family firms and highlights particularities of each process phase; it also identifies factors that allow entrepreneur(s), family members and staff to implement successful strategic renewal. The paper has implications for current theory as well as entrepreneurial practices.
Lionzo, A., Rossignoli, F., Strategic renewal through knowledge integration in family firms: an application of the 4I model, Paper, in Governing Strategy and Knowledge: Tools and Methodologies - 1st "Journal of Management and Governance" Conference, (Venice, 09-09 October 2009), Journal of Management and Governance, Venezia 2009: 1-36 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/68443]
Strategic renewal through knowledge integration in family firms: an application of the 4I model
Lionzo, Andrea;
2009
Abstract
Family firms, characterized by fervent entrepreneurial activity, provide a new avenue for examining strategic renewal. Despite strategic renewal’s recognition as a response to environmental changes in all firms, few researchers have investigated this process with family firms. This paper attempts to fill that gap by using the Crossan’s 4I model to examine knowledge integration in family firms. We analyzed three case studies which demonstrated the unique characteristics of strategic renewal in family firms: first, the entrepreneur’s role in starting and feeding the process through knowledge integration; second, the specificities of the process and the junction of some of its phases. This paper extends the Crossan’s 4I model to family firms and highlights particularities of each process phase; it also identifies factors that allow entrepreneur(s), family members and staff to implement successful strategic renewal. The paper has implications for current theory as well as entrepreneurial practices.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.