Family legacy and entrepreneurial orientation

School of Business & Management

Research Series

Tuesday 21st May 2013, 12:30 – 14:00  Room CY014

Presenter: Dr Daniel Pittino (University of Udine, Italy)

Title: “Family legacy and entrepreneurial orientation: a configurational approach”

The main goal of the paper is to identify bundles of characteristics and traits of an entrepreneur that lead to higher entrepreneurial orientation, differentiating between different situations of “family embeddedness”, namely the successors, the family business founders and the independent founders. The results suggest that some characteristics in different family status lead to different levels of entrepreneurial orientation.