The Relationship Among Familiness, Entrepreneurial Orientation and Family SME Performance: Some Empirical Evidence from China

The involvement approach to familiness tends to be important for shaping family SME resources, but it falls short in capturing the broader range of approaches to familiness such as essence approach which highlights the family members' behaviors within a family SME. Based on resource orchestration theory, this study developed a theoretical model to empirically investigate how the three different familiness resources in China's family SMEs including family dominance, emotional bonds, and family business image can impact family SME performance via entrepreneurial orientation (EO) dimensions.