Entrepreneurial Orientation and the Family Firm: Mapping the Field and Tracing a Path for Future Research

ABSTRACT: Despite several calls for the further study of entrepreneurial orientation in family firms, we still have a fragmented understanding of this topic, whose full potential has yet to be reached. To shed new light on this issue, this article first maps the family business field by carrying out a systematic review and content analysis of the 78 articles identified at the confluence of entrepreneurial orientation and family firms. Our study describes and critically assesses previous research as well as the conclusions reached. Second, this article identifies the main research gaps and provides a path for future investigations

Corporate entrepreneurship in family firms: The case of Turkey

This study investigates the relationship between institutionalization factors and corporate entrepreneurship in Turkish family firms. The data was obtained from the responses of 244 managers in family firms. The results show that there were significant relationships between the dimension of institutionalization and the dimension of corporate entrepreneurship. The autonomy dimension of institutionalization positively affects all three dimensions of corporate entrepreneurship: risk taking (ß = 0.329, p < 0.05), proactivity (ß = 0.260, p < 0.05) and innovativeness (ß = 0.302, p < 0.01). Transparency affects risk taking (ß = 0.210, p < 0.01) and proactivity (ß = 0.250, p < 0.01) in a positive way while professionalism and consistency affect proactivity (ß = 0.270, p < 0.01; ß = 0.149, p < 0.05) positively. But formalization affects the risk taking and proactivity dimensions of corporate entrepreneurship negatively. Formalization also has a meaningful and positive influence on innovativeness only (ß = -0.289, p < 0.05). © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. All rights are reserved

Kalman filter analysis for quantitative comparison of sensory schemes in bilateral teleoperation systems

Abstract — An important area of research in the teleoperation literature is to develop systematic methods to quantitatively compare different manipulator designs in application critical tasks. Such quantitative methods are especially important during design of the manipulators to make an informed decision among various design alternatives. In this paper, a novel method to quantitatively compare different sensory schemes for a teleoperation system is introduced. This method evaluates the sensory schemes by comparing the norm of the a posteriori error covariance matrices of the Kalman filters for each configuration. The main advantage of this method is that it allows to quantitatively compare arbitrary sensory configurations