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T1 Involvement of multiple generations in management and internationalization of family firms in Spain: the moderating effect of SEW dimensions
A1 Blanco Mazagatos, Virginia
A1 Delgado García, Juan Bautista
A1 Barrero Ahedo, Jesús P.
K1 Family firms
K1 Involvement of multiple generations
K1 Internationalization
K1 SEW
K1 Continuity
K1 Enrichment
K1 Prominence
K1 Gestión de empresas
K1 Industrial management
AB PurposeThe study aims to analyze for the Spanish context the influence of the involvement of several generations in the firm's management on family firm internationalization. The authors also respond to the call in the literature to consider the influence of SEW on family firm internationalizations by analyzing the moderating effect of the importance family managers attach to each of the socioemotional wealth (SEW) dimensions – enrichment, continuity and prominence on the relationship between multiple generations involved in management and family firm internationalization.Design/methodology/approachThe information was obtained by means of a questionnaire sent to the CEOs of family businesses. The authors’ sample consists of 147 Spanish family firms.FindingsThe authors find that the involvement of multiple generations in management is positively related to the internationalization of family firms. Furthermore, the importance that family CEOs attribute to the enrichment dimension of SEW reduces the intensity of the effect of the involvement of several generations in management on family firm internationalization.Originality/valueThe authors’ results, for the Spanish context, complement previous studies (Meneses et al., 2014) showing that the entry of new generations into the family business opens a window of opportunity for the internationalization of the family business. Furthermore, their study shows that the diverse family objectives by CEOs can have different, even conflicting effects on the internationalization decision. These results suggest that the enrichment dimension, which focuses on the short-term family goals may restrain the internationalization of the family business. However, continuity and prominence dimensions, which are related with long term family objectives and jointly enable the fulfillment of nonfamily stakeholders’ objectives, do not influence the internationalization of the family firms analyzed.
PB Emerald
SN 2043-6238
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8291
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8291
LA eng
NO This research was supported by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación research grant number PID2020-120288GB-I00.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 08-ene-2025