Enterprising Families Podcast with Tsitsi Mutendi

Dr Robert Robert Randolph shares on the Family identity and how it influences Wealth Orientation About: Robert Randolph is an Associate Professor of Family Business Management and Research Director of the Family Enterprise Center at Kennesaw State University. Prior to holding a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from Mississippi State University (2010), Robert provided analytical and field support to economic development activities performed through the Small Business Institute at the University of New Mexico. This insightful work opened Robert’s eyes to the transformative power of group-based entrepreneurship as a means of empowerment and wealth creation beyond the predominantly individual-centric models popular in contemporary entrepreneurship theory and practice. Today, Robert maintains this interdisciplinary and community focus by conducting research of family business management, strategy, and advising for both academic and practitioner audiences. His research interests span multiple disciplines and considers how family enterprise coordinates economic, social, and family value creation. His research is published in leading journals in a variety of disciplines; including family business, strategic management, entrepreneurship, tourism & hospitality, and information systems research. In his role as Research Director of the Family Enterprise Center, Robert engages with an interdisciplinary faculty to coordinate a variety of research studies using secondary, primary, and clinical data as well as a variety of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods techniques. The Family Enterprise Center supports a variety of local, regional, national, and international data collections in the form of membership surveys, measurement development/validation, and primary data collections. This infrastructure supports a number of research activities with recent graduate student work in International Conflict Management and Computer