What Can Scholars of Entrepreneurship Learn from Sound Family Businesses?
指出创业研究多聚焦创始人、新创企业和风险投资，却忽视了占新创企业多数的家族企业。作者分析了成功家族企业在创立、成长和成熟阶段的资源优势，并探讨了其对效果推理、机会平台等创业核心议题的启示。
Scholars of entrepreneurship have focused mostly on founder entrepreneurs, new ventures, venture capital, and entrepreneurial initiatives in larger firms. However, family firms, which account for a majority of new ventures, have received far less prominent attention from the field. Although family businesses, often rightly, have been portrayed as being conservative and even stodgy, many of them are successful and enduring, and enjoy advantages in the business founding, growth, and maturity phases of the life cycle. We discuss the resources that may be responsible for these advantages in successful family firms, and the lessons that may be drawn from such firms for quintessential topics in entrepreneurship such as effectuation, new ventures, venture capital, opportunity platforms, and entrepreneurial orientation.