Contribution of SEAM to the Internationalization Process of Family Businesses

Amandine Savall (1, 2)

1 ISEOR - Institut de Socio-économie des Entreprises et des ORganisations
2 LIRSA - Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en sciences de l'action

Globalization is an anthropological and essential transformation at both levels, microeconomic and macroeconomic (countries, organizations, and people). In this paper, we present a traditional research based on an in-depth applied experiment of SEAM intervention in a French family business. Our research hypothesis is that during the internationalization process, management consulting practices, such as socio-economic intervention-research, help family businesses manage their internationalization process at different stages: decision-making, strategic implementation and performance piloting through measuring hidden costs and performance. We present our research results about the internationalization process of our family company case and show how, as researcher-consultants, we contribute to make this process more successful.

Mots clés: Socio-Economic Approach to Management; intervention-research; action research; strategy consulting -

Amandine Savall. Contribution of SEAM to the Internationalization Process of Family Businesses. AOM Conference - USA, 2014, United States. pp.37. ⟨hal-00984466⟩