Model testing – decision-making on capacity expansion in family businesses. Evidence from Portugal

• Author(s): Nemes, Kinga ; Lisboa, Inês ; Konczos-Szombathelyi, Márta
• Date: 2025
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/14904
• Origin: IC-online
• Subject(s): family businesses; decision-making; capacity expansion; Portugal
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório IC-Online

Description

This paper aims to test and validate a model of internal factors influencing the capacity expansion decisions of family businesses, thereby helping these organizations better understand their decision-making processes. The identified internal factors include socio-emotional wealth, intergenerational cooperation, and a heterogeneous top management team. The study focuses on family businesses in the Portuguese food industry and employs both qualitative and quantitative methods. A structured online questionnaire, completed by 150 respondents, was analyzed using SPSS. Additionally, in-depth interviews were conducted to confirm the quantitative findings and provide a broader conceptual perspective. The results indicate that both qualitative and quantitative analyses support the proposed model.