| Tekijä: | Johannisson, B. Huse, M. |
| Otsikko: | Recruiting outside board members in the small family business: an ideological challenge |
| Lehti: | Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
2000 : OCT-DEC, VOL. 12:4, p. 353-378 |
| Asiasana: | BOARD OF DIRECTORS FAMILY FIRMS RECRUITMENT SMALL BUSINESS |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | The focus of this paper is to explore how contrasting ideologies influence the selection process of outside directors in the small family business. The proposed ideological framework is positioned against alternative approaches to the study of board selection processes. Two sets of data are presented. A piloting survey of 12 family businesses is used to substantiate the theoretical assumption that entrepreneurial firms avoid having outside directors and managerial firms welcome outside directors, leaving paternalistically-run family businesses ambivalent. Repeated in-depth interviews in two family businesses, one founder-managed and entrepreneurial, the other established and traditional, reveal how the professionalization of the board enforces managerialism, challenging thus far dominating ideologies, entrepreneurialism and paternalism. |
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