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Entrepreneurship in Family Business Groups in Latin America Under Organizational Ambidexterity Lens

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In this chapter, we focus on the development of family-controlled business groups within a sample of the Latin American region. The effects of entrepreneurship are studied under the lens of organizational ambidexterity. The findings show that a balance between exploiting existing resources and exploring new opportunities for wealth allows such firms to be ambidextrous, successful in stable periods, but able to adapt to changes in the environment. By explicitly considering a more general perspective on the influence of institutional quality in developing countries, this chapter goes a bit further back to the study of entrepreneurship in family businesses.

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    Claudio G. Muller

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    Marita Rautiainen

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    Maria José Parada

  3. School of Engineering Science, LUT University, Lahti, Finland

    Timo Pihkala

  4. Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), Jönköping, Sweden

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  5. Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster, UK

    Allan Discua Cruz

  6. Department of Organisation Behavior and Human Resources Management, Indian Institute of Management Indore (IIM), Indore, India

    Kajari Mukherjee

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Muller, C.G. (2023). Entrepreneurship in Family Business Groups in Latin America Under Organizational Ambidexterity Lens. In: Rautiainen, M., Parada, M.J., Pihkala, T., Akhter, N., Discua Cruz, A., Mukherjee, K. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Managing Family Business Groups. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13206-3_6

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