Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Format of Original
23 p.
Publication Date
2010
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Source Publication
Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence, and Growth
Source ISSN
1074-7540
Abstract
Entrepreneurs may wish to be selective about which relatives to include or exclude in their businesses. For example, their child might be inept but their niece might be outstanding. What aspects of kinship systems affect their ability to make these sorts of choices? What enables them to bend their ties of kinship and marriage to the interests of their business? Most broadly, what dimensions of kinship lend themselves to tactical or instrumental actions? This question is sweeping just as my meaning of “entrepreneurs” is very broad: those who take actions with the goal of growing their capital (Stewart, 1991). This capital may take the form of newly started ventures, dynastic firms, or even in precapitalist systems other social forms, for example, rural estates farmed by followers.
Recommended Citation
Stewart, Alex, "Sources of Entrepreneurial Discretion in Kinship Systems" (2010). Management Faculty Research and Publications. 5.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/mgmt_fac/5
Comments
Accepted version. Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, Vol. 12 (2010): 291-313. DOI. This article is © Emerald Group Publishing and permission has been granted for this version to appear here. Emerald does not grant permission for this article to be further copied/distributed or hosted elsewhere without the express permission from Emerald Group Publishing Limited.