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How Do Family SMEs Control Their Investments Abroad? The Role of Distance and Family Control
Management International Review ( IF 3.9 ) Pub Date : 2019-12-05 , DOI: 10.1007/s11575-019-00406-6
Barbara Del Bosco , Cristina Bettinelli

We explore how family-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) control their investments abroad: through full ownership (wholly owned subsidiaries) or sharing the ownership with other partners (joint ventures). Focusing on the role of family control (family members as CEO and/or board chair) and three dimensions of distance (cultural, geographic, and institutional) to explain this choice, we analyze 1475 foreign subsidiaries owned by 701 family SMEs and find that cultural, geographic, and institutional distance affect the choice of ownership mode in different ways. Moreover, family control moderates the relationship between distance and foreign ownership mode in the case of cultural and institutional distance, but not in that of geographic distance. Our study contributes to the international business literature by helping to explain the effect of distance on foreign ownership mode choice and by highlighting the importance of the characteristics of main decision makers. The paper also contributes to the literature on family business, shedding light on the role of family control in family SMEs’ foreign ownership mode choice. We thereby offer new insights into the preferences of family leaders and explain how, under certain conditions, when family members cover a central role in the governance, the foreign ownership modes differ.

中文翻译:

家庭中小型企业如何控制海外投资?距离和家庭控制的作用

我们探索家族拥有的中小企业(SME)如何控制其在国外的投资:通过完全所有权(全资子公司)或与其他合作伙伴(合资企业)共享所有权。着重于家族控制的作用(家族成员担任首席执行官和/或董事会主席)以及距离的三个维度(文化,地理和机构)来解释这一选择,我们分析了701家家族中小企业所拥有的1475家外国子公司,发现,地理和机构距离会以不同方式影响所有权模式的选择。此外,在文化和制度距离的情况下,家庭控制会缓和距离与外国所有制模式之间的关系,而在地理距离上则不会。我们的研究通过帮助解释距离对外国所有制模式选择的影响,并强调了主要决策者特征的重要性,为国际商业文献做出了贡献。本文还为有关家族企业的文献做出了贡献,阐明了家族控制在家族中小企业外资所有权模式选择中的作用。因此,我们提供了有关家族领导者偏好的新见解,并解释了在某些条件下,当家族成员在治理中发挥核心作用时,外国所有制模式会有所不同。阐明了家族控制在家族中小企业外资所有权模式选择中的作用。因此,我们提供了有关家族领导者偏好的新见解,并解释了在某些条件下,当家族成员在治理中发挥核心作用时,外国所有制模式会有所不同。阐明了家族控制在家族中小企业外资所有权模式选择中的作用。因此,我们提供了有关家族领导者偏好的新见解,并解释了在某些条件下,当家族成员在治理中发挥核心作用时,外国所有制模式会有所不同。
更新日期:2019-12-05
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