Accessing Resources from Innovation Partners: The Search Breadth of Family SMEs
研究了家族与非家族中小企业在创新合作伙伴多样性（搜索广度）上的差异，发现家族企业搜索广度更低，并分析了CEO教育水平和高管团队特征对家族企业搜索广度的影响。
This study investigates differences in the diversity of cooperation partners used for innovation-related activities (i.e., search breadth) between family and nonfamily small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as within the group of family SMEs. The results generally confirm our hypotheses derived from the behavioral theory of the firm. Specifically, we show that family SMEs have a lower search breadth than their nonfamily counterparts. Our findings further illustrate how attributes of the CEO (level of education) and the top management team (nonfamily management involvement and educational background diversity) relate to the search breadth of family SMEs.