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Employees’ Change-Oriented and Proactive Behaviors in Small- and Medium-Sized Family Businesses

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This chapter sheds light on family business employees’ change-oriented and proactive behaviors and the structural conditions they find to support or hinder these behaviors. A study consisting of 20 semi-structured interviews with family business owners and employees is reported. The results give the first idea for linkages to existing theory in family business research and can be seen as a basis for additional theoretical considerations as well as empirical studies.

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    Interviews were conducted with the help of Julia Gschwentner and Johanna Herzog.

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Spiess, T., Zehrer, A. (2020). Employees’ Change-Oriented and Proactive Behaviors in Small- and Medium-Sized Family Businesses. In: Saiz-Álvarez, J.M., Leitão, J., Palma-Ruiz, J.M. (eds) Entrepreneurship and Family Business Vitality. Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15526-1_4

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