Entrepreneurial identity formation in family firms: the transgenerational impact of parents’ fear of failure
研究了家族企业父母的创业失败恐惧如何通过身份意义传递影响子女的创业身份形成，并分析了子女在家族企业的工作经验对关系的调节作用。
In this paper, we extend the understanding of transgenerational entrepreneurship by examining how parental influence shapes offspring’s entrepreneurial identity within family firms. Drawing on identity process theory, we posit that family business owners’ entrepreneurial fear of failure conveys identity meaning that affects their offspring’s perception of the parents’ entrepreneurial identity, which in turn influences the centrality of the offspring’s entrepreneurial identity. Additionally, we examine how the offspring’s work experience in the family business moderates this relationship. Analyzing data from 301 parent-offspring pairs in Iranian small- and medium-sized family businesses, we find empirical support for our research model. We discuss implications for both research and practice.