Commitment Escalation to a Failing Family Business
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Authors
Chirico F.,
Salvato C.,
Byrne B.,
Akhter N.,
Arriaga Múzquiz J.
Type
Journal Article
Year
2016
Language
English
Abstract
The overarching intent of this manuscript is to heighten awareness to the concept of commitment escalation as it bears on a failing family business. Specifically, drawing on the concept of emotional ownership, together with self-justification arguments, we a) identify factors considered to be most forceful in contributing to the presence of commitment escalation and thus, resistance to change in a failing family business (i.e., emotional ownership, feeling of responsibility, investment of capital, temporal distance from the founder’s business, individualism/collectivism), and b) model these related factors in a form that can serve heuristically to stimulate future empirical research capable of testing for the construct validity of commitment escalation in a family business context. We present potential items that may be useful for future scholars in measuring our constructs of interest as they relate to a failing family business.
Journal
Journal of Small Business Management
Start page number
1
End page number
36
