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Entrepreneurial parents aspiring to transfer their business to one of their children face information asymmetries regarding the entrepreneurial commitment and competence of each of their offspring, complicating identification of the most suitable successor. We posit that offspring’s independent entrepreneurial experience and performance serve as costly and hard-to-imitate signals of their entrepreneurial commitment and competence, respectively, mitigating these information asymmetries. Accordingly, we assess the signaling value of entrepreneurship in a large sample of Swedish intra-family successions. In line with our predictions, we find that offspring’s independent entrepreneurial experience positively affects the likelihood of becoming a successor in their parents’ business, and that this effect is stronger at higher levels of parental firm performance. Partly contradicting our curvilinear hypothesis, however, we find a distinctly negative effect of offspring’s independent entrepreneurial performance on the likelihood of becoming a successor. Our findings thus suggest that offspring’s early-career entrepreneurial activities indeed signal information relevant to the intra-family succession process, yet may do so in ways that do not guarantee selection of the most capable intra-family successors for the parental firm. We thereby contribute to literatures on entrepreneurial careers, succession, entrepreneurial families, and signaling theory.
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Accepted/In press - 2023 |
Event | Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference - Knoxville, United States Duration: 7 Jun 2023 → 10 Jun 2023 Conference number: 2023 https://www.babson.edu/entrepreneurship-center/thought-leadership/babson-college-entrepreneurship-research-conference-bcerc/2023-bcerc-university-of-tennessee-knoxville/ |
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Conference | Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference |
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Abbreviated title | BCERC |
Country/Territory | United States |
City | Knoxville |
Period | 7/06/23 → 10/06/23 |
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Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference
Jasper Brinkerink (Speaker)
7 Jun 2023 → 10 Jun 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference