A Review of Family Entrepreneurship Literature and Future Prospects

Qi Qi, Zhao Shukuan, Hu Weixuan

Foreign Economics & Management Vol. 39, Issue 10, pp. 18 - 39 (2017)  DOI:10.16538/j.cnki.fem.2017.10.002

Abstract

In recent years, the family entrepreneurship research as the crossing field of family business research and entrepreneurship research, which has attracted more and more attention from domestic and foreign scholars. Many scholars began working on family entrepreneurship research, and have made many useful research, but the crossing research field is still in its infancy. This paper analyzes the literature of family entrepreneurship in recent ten years（2007–2017）. This paper firstly analyzes the current situation of family entrepreneurship research and defines the concept of family entrepreneurship. On the basis of this, it makes a systematic review and comment on the research results obtained in the last ten years in four aspects: theoretical basis, research methods , research levels and effect factors. Finally, it points out the shortcomings of the current research and puts forward the future research directions in family entrepreneurship.

Keywords

family entrepreneurship; embedded theory; entrepreneurial family exit; research level