The Institute will strive to provide leading edge thinking in the area of family enterprising and to partner with scholars who desire to pursue research and publications on transgenerational entrepreneurship.

Our current research focuses on the entrepreneurial orientation of family groups and the relationship to innovation and creating new streams of value for transgenerational entrepreneurship.

Babson Kaufman Entrepreneurial Research Conference

The Institute for family enterprising, in partnership with Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, will host a special track at the Babson Kaufman Entrepreneurial Research Conference.  A Special Forum on Transgenerational Entrepreneurship (SFTE) consisting of paper presentations with scholarly responses and open collegial dialogue is being held on Wednesday, June 8th, 2005 as a pre-conference event.  If you are interested in attending, please login and go to Additional Information to register for the SFTE.

Date: June 8-11 2005

Location: Babson College

For more details visit the Official Conference Website

Shaker Zahra is the Paul T. Babson Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies. His extensive research and expertise covers corporate entrepreneurship, technological entrepreneurship and international entrepreneurship. Professor Zahra is applying his entrepreneurship knowledge and research capabilities to family firms and establishing a unique stream of literature on entrepreneurship in family firms. Read some of Professor Zahra's leading edge articles on family enterprising below.

Entrepreneurship in Family vs. Non-Family Firms: A Resource-Based Analysis of the Effect of Organizational Culture - Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (2004)

Creating Wealth in Family Firms through Managing Resources: Comments and Extensions - Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (2003)

International expansion of U.S. manufacturing family businesses: the effect of ownership and involvement - Journal of Business Venturing (2003)

Relational and Contractual Governance in Family Firms: Effects on Strategic Decision Making - Family Business Review (2002)

Timothy G. Habbershon - DIRECTOR

Tim Habbershon is currently examining the relationship of the Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) of family firms with their innovation capabilities and performance outcomes. Professor Habbershon has been a thought leader in applying the resource-based view of the firm to family companies and in establishing a model for family enterprising that creates a nexus between the arenas of family business and entrepreneurship. Below is a sampling of Professor Habbershon's articles in his area.

Unified Systems Theory of Family Firms - Journal of Business Venturing (2003)

Enterprising Families Domain - Family Business Review (2002)

A Resource-Based Framework for Assessing the Strategic Advantages of Family Firms - Family Business Review (1999)

Research Studies

American Family Business Survey

Women in Family-Owned Businesses

Improving the Long-Run Survival of Family Firms