Institutional influences on entrepreneurial behaviours in the family entrepreneurship context: towards an integrative framework

[...]the family firm influences the family (e.g. the “enterpriseness” of the firm; see Frank et al., 2019) as well as individuals comprising it (e.g. successor development or new member socialisation). According to Scott (2001, p. 48), institutions are “social structures that have attained a high degree of resilience [and are] composed of cultural-cognitive, normative, and regulative elements that, together with associated activities and resources, provide stability and meaning to social life”. According to the institutional void perspective (Dacin et al., 2010; Estrin et al., 2013), resource scarce environments are conducive to entrepreneurial behaviours given that individuals behave entrepreneurially to provide services or create infrastructures that the government lacks to provide. The system of pyramids of holding companies, for instance, is much more developed in civil code countries in order to solve the problem of treating all the children the same at the time of succession. [...]a link that appears between the governance of the family of one part is driven by the law and the governance of the company that needs to take into account the consequences on the business of the family law constraints.