Resumen de Using PLS-SEM to model Family Business Behavior when addressing the protocol

Maribel Rodríguez Zapatero, Leonor M. Pérez Naranjo, Magdalena Rodríguez Jiménez, Isabel Ramírez Faz

• español

  El artículo analiza los factores que influyen en la familia empresaria a la hora de abordar un protocolo familiar. Aplica la teoría de la conducta planeada y mediante ecuaciones estructurales (PLS-SEM) analiza los datos recabados a 98 integrantes de empresa familiares procedentes de Córdoba, España. La investigación persigue explicar como la intención de iniciar el proceso de firma de un protocolo en la empresa familiar está moderada por su factibilidad que a su vez viene influenciada por el deseo de alcanzar el pacto y la utilidad percibida en ello. Los resultados confirman las hipótesis de investigación planteadas y abren líneas de investigaciones futuras que permitan replicar el modelo considerando variables moderadoras en la modelización (etapa generacional, etc).

• English

  This study focuses on the factors that lead family business to address a family protocol. This paper applies the theory of planned behavior. To test the validity of this theory in predicting family business behavior, this research uses data collected from a questionnaire distributed to business family members (n = 98) from Córdoba, Spain. Firstly, this research aims to explain the paradigm in which the intentionality to start the process towards the protocol on generational replacement and future distribution of the ownership is conducted by its feasibility – and this is partially marked by the willingness to reach the agreement and its utility. Secondly, the hypotheses are confirmed by means of the analysis of the data gathered from a sample of business families. Thirdly, the results of the model applied in the study are discussed, as well as its consistency and the nature of the information used by means of PLSSEM.