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The Family Business in Collectivist Societies: Traits and Implications
El Fasiki, Hamza - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The way a family business functions is greatly influenced by the structure of the society it originates from. A wide range of literature has recently attempted to emphasise that it is, therefore, not possible to create global family business theories without taking into consideration the...
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The Family Business in Collectivist Societies: Traits and Implications
El Fasiki, Hamza - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The way a family business functions is greatly influenced by the structure of the society it originates from. A wide range of literature has recently attempted to emphasise that it is, therefore, not possible to create global family business theories without taking into consideration the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259607
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Support for Business Succession in the European Union
Wach, Krzysztof - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper summarizes - from the point of view of management sciences - institutional factors that matter for conducting the policy of support for business succession by member states in the European Union. Describing challenges for family business in Europe is the entering point for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644777
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Disorganizing Organizational Culture: Comment on the Individual and Family Factors
El Fasiki, Hamza - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Defining culture in relation to organizational culture has also focused on the operation level of culture. This latter as discussed by Maurice Thévenet (1993) concludes that culture is a collective phenomenon that concerns an enterprise as a human organization. By this collective point of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107276
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'The employees are all equal... but some are more equals than others'. Altruism, opportunism and discrimination in family SMEs
Ferrari, Filippo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This article provides empirical evidence to support the Agency Theory as applied to small and medium-sized family firms. The research, conducted on a sample of SMEs (N = 88), has investigated the main elements of the Agency Theory ( type of contract, agent autonomy, mechanisms of resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110162
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Entanglement by Genes or Shares; Hamilton´s rule of kin selection revisited
Friedrich, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Help within genetically related and unrelated organisms as well as investments of investors holding shares to different degree including charity can be understood within the ensemble concept. In an ensemble transfer of substrate from a source to a sink may result in superadditivity as well as...
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The impacts of the food, fuel and financial crises on households in Nigeria. A retrospective approach for research enquiry
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Chiripanhura, Blessing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Nigeria. It uses primary household level data from Nigeria to analyse the impacts of induced price variability on household …
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Households Expenditure Pattern On Beef And Chicken Of Selected Households In Akoko South-West LGA Of Ondo State
Alimi, Santos R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This study examined the expenditure pattern of beef and chicken by individual households in Akoko South-West of Ondo State. The study was designed to estimate the monthly expenditure on beef and chicken; evaluate the influence of household income and household size on expenditure as well as...
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Do reticent managers lie during firm surveys?
Clarke, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
evidence consistent with the idea that reticent managers lie. First, it shows that reticent managers in Nigeria report that … is, reticent managers in Nigeria report paying higher wages but they are not doing so. …
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Exchange Rate Volatility and the extent of Currency Substitution in Nigeria
Yinusa, D. Olalekan; Akinlo, A.E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This study tests for the existence of currency substitution and attempts to gauge its magnitude in Nigeria. The … Nigeria and the ratio of deposits denominated in foreign currency in the domestic banking system to deposits denominated in … banking system in Nigeria. A major factor driving this process was exchange rate volatility especially real parallel market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079329