Abstract
The purpose of our special issue is to demonstrate how a careers perspective can contribute to the study of family businesses and bring to light how the family business context extends and challenges career theories and concepts. Inspired by the studies in our special issue and our review of previous research, we propose a conceptual model that leverages the concept of family embeddedness and intertwines it with career processes and outcomes. Building on the family embeddedness perspective, we propose several avenues for future research for family business and career scholars.
Highlights
Due to the inextricable link between the family and business, family enterprises offer a unique context to study careers
The findings show that the indirect form of nepotism is beneficial to the career success of show-business family relatives in terms of quality and quantity of career outcomes
Inspired by the studies in our special issue and our review of previous research, we propose a conceptual model that leverages the concept of family embeddedness and intertwines it with career processes and outcomes (Aldrich & Cliff, 2003)
Summary
Due to the inextricable link between the family and business, family enterprises offer a unique context to study careers. While business-owning families seek to develop family members’ careers within the family business (e.g., Bloemen-Bekx, Van Gils, Lambrechts, & Sharma, 2019), at the same time they must work to attract, motivate and retain nonfamily employees (Querbach, Waldkirch, & Kammerlander, 2020; Tabor, Chrisman, Madison, & Vardaman, 2018) Those that are able to build businesses that offer beneficial and progressive career paths for both family and nonfamily employees are likely to gain their commit ment and benefit from high-quality contributions of family and nonfamily employees alike (Ramos, Man, Mustafa, & Ng, 2014). The purpose of our special issue is to demonstrate how a careers perspective can contribute to the study of family businesses and bring to light how the family business context extends and challenges career theories and concepts
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