September 2010 Research Seminar
College of Business Administration (Room COBA 3311)
FROM ENTREPRENEURIAL BURNOUT TO BEING ON FIRE IN FAMILY BUSINESS
Zahra, Klein, and Astrachan (2006) recently suggested that there is a need to more fully integrate a psychological perspective to better capture the complex dynamics that exist within a family business. In addition, small business ownership and role stress are often linked (Brigham 2002; Duran-Whitney 2004; Wincent, Ortqvist, and Drnovsek 2008; Shepherd, Marchisio, Morrish, Deacon, and Miles Forthcoming), and with burnout often negatively impacting not only the businesses itself, but the entrepreneur. The link between role stress, burnout and a negative impact on the business and entrepreneur can be logically extended to include the family. While role stress is associated with entrepreneurship in general (Boyd & Gumpert, 1983); family businesses, with their tremendous potential for role conflicts, may be result in even higher levels of stress and if uncontrolled and ultimately result in job burnout. Therefore, in the quest to better understand family businesses as complex social systems, we must consider the antecedents and consequences of burnout in a family business.
Morgan Miles is professor of Marketing at Georgia Southern University. He has been an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, and a visiting professor at the universities of Stockholm, Otago, and Auckland. In addition he has been a visiting academic at Georgia Tech and the University of Cambridge. His research interests are at the marketing and entrepreneurship interface and sustainability.
Gaia Marchisio, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at Coles College of Business, at Kennesaw State. Gaia’s research primarily concerns fostering entrepreneurship in family business, burnout in family business and family business’ strategic planning process. She teaches undergrad and grad courses on Management and Behavioral Sciences, Family Business Management, and Family Business Consulting. Gaia is faculty associate of the Cox Family Enterprise Center, world leader center in family business research.
C. David Shepherd is a Professor of Marketing and Director of the Center for Sales Excellence at Georgia Southern University. Dr. Shepherd earned his Ph.D. in Marketing at the University of Tennessee. He has published extensively in the field of sales and sales management. His primary research interests include the cognitive processes of salespeople and the challenges inherent in sales and sales management positions.
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