The construction of entrepreneurial practices in family businesses: A study in the cachaça industry

The purpose of this paper is to comprehend the construction of entrepreneurial practices in family businesses. In order to do so, we studied four family businesses from the cachaça industry through a qualitative multicase study. We observed that entrepreneurial practices of organization creation, of...

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Autores: Borges, Alex Fernando, Volta, Carolina Lescura de Carvalho Castro, Brito, Mozar José de, Lima, Juvêncio Braga de
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
Repositorio:Contextus (Fortaleza. Online)
Idioma:inglés
portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufc:article/61424
Acceso en línea:http://periodicos.ufc.br/contextus/article/view/61424
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:entrepreneurship
entrepreneurial process
entrepreneurial practices
entrepreneuring
cachaça
emprendimiento
proceso emprendedor
prácticas emprendedoras
empreendedorismo
processo empreendedor
práticas empreendedoras
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Sumario:The purpose of this paper is to comprehend the construction of entrepreneurial practices in family businesses. In order to do so, we studied four family businesses from the cachaça industry through a qualitative multicase study. We observed that entrepreneurial practices of organization creation, of opportunities’ identification and exploration, of production and commercialization, and of innovation, contributed alltogheter for these businesses’ evolution, competitivity and survival. Therefore, we consider the approach of entrepreneurship through entrepreneurial practices may constitute an alternative for the development of the field, contributing to a more comprehensive analysis of entrepreneurial phenomena in general, and of family businesses in particular.