An Exploratory Study on Family Business Non-sucsessor Entrepreneurs

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K01908
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 07080:Business administration-related
• Research Institution: Kurume University
• Principal Investigator: Kawaji Takahiro 久留米大学, 文学部, 准教授 (90554246)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 姜 理惠 北陸先端科学技術大学院大学, 先端科学技術研究科, 准教授 (90570052)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 事業承継 / 承継外子女起業家 / ファミリーアントレプレナーシップ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The characteristics of the "non-successor entrepreneurs" who were candidates for business succession yet started their own businesses were found to be 1) a very autonomous attitude toward career choice, 2) starting a business while building a business model using effectuation, and 3) considering the family business as a role model and trying to overcome it. The study found that family entrepreneurship through non-successor entrepreneurs consists of two factors: altruism, community, and long-term thinking, and the risk propensity to achieve these factors. In addition, probably the non-successor entrepreneurs inherit human capital building skills and outgoing personalities from the family business.

Free Research Field

経営学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

起業家育成と起業家の絶対数の増加が喫緊の課題といわれながら、見通しは立っていない。そのようななかファミリービジネス子女でありながら継承者から漏れた「承継外子女」の存在を、地域経営・地域創造活動を研究するなかで見出した。インタビュー結果をM-GTAで質的分析した結果、承継外子女がもつ特徴と、承継外子女がファミリーアントレナーシップより受けている影響を明らかにすることができた。さらに出身ファミリービジネスからなにを受け継いで事業創造をしているかについて検討を進めた。