... positionalities within the agricultural industry, alongside prior ethnographic research that utilised the FSF. Findings The FBAF theorises the main influences on farming contexts across different levels, illustrating how they generate both opportunities and constraints that shape farm development strategies...

... characteristics, orientation, goals and familial influence. Nonetheless, a coherent body of research on strategies for family business resilience uncovering managerial implications remains elusive. Design/methodology/approach The authors performed a systematic literature review followed by a synthesis...

...Torbjörn Ljungkvist; Börje Boers; Christoffer Axell Purpose This study explores how retail family firm managers’ cognitive capabilities are used to enable firm strategy in a context of economic uncertainty. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on a case study using 31 interviews...

...., 2013), compared to larger firms. However, SMEs are also more flexible than larger firms and may be able to respond to new opportunities more quickly by pivoting to different income streams (Ebben and Johnson, 2005). Larger firms may struggle to reverse strategies implemented in the face of a downturn...

... with forward-planning and more traditional operationally focused elements. Resilience Innovation Strategy Proactiveness Surviving disruption is vital in today's world, where firms face a variety of threats to their performance and survival, including economic crises (Amann and Jaussaud, 2012...

... Strategy” setting out a long-standing commitment to stimulate social enterprise activity, develop stronger organisations and realise market opportunity (Scottish Government, 2016). Consequently, a 2019 report estimated that there were 6,025 social enterprises across the country, representing a sixteen per...

...Arthur Kearney; Denis Harrington; Tazeeb Rajwani Purpose Using a state of the art CIMO literature review the paper develops a framework of the relationship between strategy making in the small tourism firm context and four performance outcomes. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses...

... context in the EO–firm performance relationship. Further, a new contingency perspective is advanced by considering competitive strategy. In doing so, this study extends an understanding of the conditions under which an EO might be associated with firm performance. Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial...

... usually aim to fill when they face particular events, intermediaries (such as incubators) could better plan initiatives and strategies supporting new ventures in the process of growth and stabilization. Furthermore, the venture capitalists can benefit from this research, by planning specific interventions...

... in the innovation literature. The learning modes are as follows: Technology entrepreneurship Strategy Nanotechnology Innovation and technology management Capabilities and competencies Learning Innovation Entrepreneurialism While the literature on innovation has focussed on the role...

.... The historically formed strategies and discourse of the field, establishing and affirming the church of management and defining the entrepreneurial as outside of it (or under it) and neatly isolating the subject into business‐oriented categories could then continue to be overturned. The tactic insinuated? The rest...

... to a successful business. It is proposed that adaptation has three relevant components: the firm’s capacity to adapt, how much it actually adapts, and the strategies it relies upon to adapt. A conceptual model and hypotheses are proposed, relating the entrepreneur, the organizational context and the external...

...Simon Harris; Tom Forbes; Margaret Fletcher The relevance of the planning approach for innovative and for young entrepreneurial firms had been subject to debate. It has been argued that planning dampens the realisation of entrepreneurial vision. This study examines the enacted strategy approaches...

...Gerald Watts; Jason Cope; Michael Hulme This paper seeks to explore the relationship between learning, strategy and growth in small food producing firms using Ansoff’s strategy matrix as a framework and explores the usefulness of Greiner’s life cycle model. The complexity of this interaction...