Family business, owner-managers, ethnicity and conflict in Malaysia

Title
Family business, owner-managers, ethnicity and conflict in Malaysia
Publication Date
2024
Author(s)
Adapa, Sujana
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4385-1783
Email: sadapa2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:sadapa2
Yarram, Subba Reddy
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9209-3499
Email: syarram@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:syarram
Editor
Editor(s): Wim Naudé and Bernadette Power
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.4337/9781802206791.00027
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/62223
Abstract

The conflicts encountered by the owner-managers in family-owned firms in Malaysia are explored in this chapter. Drawing upon the theoretical lens from agency, stewardship, resource-based and socioemotional wealth theories the lived experiences of conflicts on the basis of type, nature and extent by the owner-managers of family-owned firms are investigated deeply through in-depth interviews. Macro and micro thematic categories of relative importance are elicited by employing qualitative data analysis. Results obtained indicate that owner-managers in family-owned firms experience task, process, internal and/or external-oriented conflicts alongside affective, conative and/or cognitive nature of conflicts to a lesser or greater extent on the basis of gender and ethnicity leading conflict triads. The study provides important implications for theory, practice and family business environment.

Link
Citation
Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, p. 280-290
ISBN
9781802206791
9781802206784
Start page
280
End page
290

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