Jillian Pettit

Dr. Orr
CIED 1003
7 June 2019

Research Tools Using Mullins Library

Journal Article: Researching Entrepreneurship in Family Firms, Cristina Bettinelli, Salvatore

Sciascia, Kathleen Randerson, and Alain Fayolle, 2017.

This article is a review of 109 articles written about entrepreneurial activities and
attitudes when a family is involved in an established organization. They also found that 68 of the
articles identified some firm-level antecedents. They grouped these antecedents into firm
strategies, firm resources, and various organizational features. For example, they found that
networking and external control drove product innovation, flexible planning induced
innovativeness, investments in advertising and marketing were positively related to investments.
They decided that there are multiple outcomes when it comes to entrepreneurship in Family
Firms: the landscape of firm-level outcomes, firm-level outcomes of innovation and
innovativeness in family firms, and firm-level outcomes of EO in family firms. The landscape of
the firm-level outcomes consisted of measuring their productivity through different forms,
whether that is through their financials or Return on Assets, total shareholder returns, etc. The
firm-level outcomes of innovation were noted by assessing family involvement into
innovativeness. Lastly, the firm-level outcomes of EO (Entrepreneurship’s Organization)
focused on using family involvement as a contingent variable.

Theses and Dissertations: Small Business Crisis Management Strategies, Dovie Wilson, 2016.

In this theses, Dovie Wilson focused on crisis management strategies that helped small
businesses from premature closure. A crisis in few words would be to have an unexpected
operational interruption. In the end, she found 3 major themes across the three businesses that
she interviewed, observed, and reviewed the entire company. The three themes were the
importance of developing survival strategies, open communication and relationship building, and
creative thinking as a survival strategy. In survival strategies, she found that taking actions
beforehand like insurance coverage, worker’s compensation policy, and communications with
both vendors and consumers were huge in keeping a small business alive. Not having survival
skills planned before a crisis would most of the time result in a premature closure.

Book: Small Business Management: Entrepreneurship and Beyond, Timothy S Hatten, 2016.
This Small Business Management book is an introduction into the entrepreneurship as
well as small business management world, focusing on keeping a competitive advantage while
being a small organization.

Video: Senator Kerry on Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship During Hard Times,
JJ Ramberg, 2008. News programs/current affairs.
Reference: Financial Management for the Small Business, QFinance: The Ultimate Resource,
2006.
“Financial Management for the Small Business provides an introduction to financial
management, aimed primarily at those who have little experience with business accounts.”