Family Capital in Family Businesses: Complementarities of Human and Social Capital

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Author(s): Astrid Kramer (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)and Brigitte Kroon (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 21
Source title: Handbook of Research on the Strategic Management of Family Businesses
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Jesús Manuel Palma-Ruiz (Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Mexico), Ismael Barros-Contreras (Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile)and Luca Gnan (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2269-1.ch001

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / Entrepreneurship & Innovation / Small and Medium Enterprises

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Family capital is all social, human, and financial capital a family has at their disposal in the family to advance the business. Family capital is the pool of resources unique to family business and it has the potential for family businesses to gain competitive advantage over nonfamily businesses in today's competitive landscape. To advance the knowledge about strategic management in family businesses, this chapter reviews quantitative empirical work on each dimension of family capital and concludes that the field is still in its infancy. Most studies concentrate on (a part of) social capital, a few on human capital, and very few on all three dimensions. The review of the literature describes avenues for further research on family capital.

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