• No heir apparent? Exploring the workers' co-operative model as a solution to the continuity of family businesses 

  Murphy, Linda; McCarthy, Olive; Carroll, Bridget (European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises, 2017-12)

  Family businesses, with no apparent heir, face the risk of discontinuity. While a number of family businesses rely heavily on non-family employees, the role of non-family employees in the continuity of family businesses ...
• Extending the concept of familiness to relational capability: A Belgian micro-brewery study 

  McGrath, Helen; O'Toole, Thomas (SAGE Publications, 2017-11-01)

  While research in family businesses has focused on familiness as a resource with potential to generate competitive advantage, a gap exists in understanding how such value can be extended to wider business relationships. ...
• Strategic patterns in the development of network capability in new ventures 

  O'Toole, Thomas; McGrath, Helen (Elsevier Inc., 2017-07-25)

  This paper seeks to examine the strategic patterns in the development of network capability in new ventures. Every firm needs to build on their internal resources to survive and grow. In this respect, network capability ...
• The impact of social media on resource mobilisation in entrepreneurial firms 

  McGrath, Helen; Drummond, Conor; O'Toole, Thomas (Elsevier Inc., 2017-06-30)

  This paper examines the impact that social media has on the development of entrepreneurial firms' new, and maintenance of existing, B2B relationships and networks through resource mobilisation. Using the craft brewing and ...
• A process-based model of network capability development by a start-up firm 

  McGrath, Helen; Medlin, Christopher J.; O'Toole, Thomas (Elsevier Inc., 2017-12-08)

  Start-up firms are notoriously resource and time poor. One way of addressing these deficits is to develop strategic capability to access, activate and co-shape resources with other firms in the start-up's network. The ...

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