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Centers of Gravity : The Effect of Stable Shared Leadership in Top Management Teams on Firm Growth and Industry Evolution
Agarwal, Rajshree - 2018
We study the processes of firm growth in the evolution of the Japanese cotton spinning industry during 1883-1914 by integrating strategy and historical approaches and utilizing rich quantitative firm-level data and detailed business histories. The resultant conceptual model highlights growth...
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Managing the Family Firm : Evidence from CEOS at Work
Bandiera, Oriana - 2015
We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs, and on whether family and professional CEOs differ on this dimension. We do so through a new survey instrument that allows us to codify CEOs' diaries in a detailed and comparable fashion, and to build a bottom-up measure of CEO labor supply. The...
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Employee Spinouts, Social Networks, and Family Firms
Rauch, James E. - 2014
"spinouts": managers of input divisions can start their own firms, making customized inputs formerly provided internally subject … lead to inefficiently low entry. Vertically integrated firms can fight back by hiring managers for their input divisions … spin out. This is shown to predict the association of co-ethnic networks with high rates of entrepreneurship and the …
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How Do CEOS See Their Role? Management Philosophy and Styles in Family and Non-Family Firms
Mullins, William - 2014
Using a survey of 800 CEOs in 22 emerging economies we show that CEOs' management styles and philosophy vary with the control rights and involvement of the owning family and founder: CEOs of firms with greater family involvement have more hierarchical management, and feel more accountable to...
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Inside the Family Firm : The Role of Families in Succession Decisions and Performance
Bennedsen, Morten - 2014
This paper uses a unique dataset from Denmark to investigate the impact of family characteristics in corporate decision making and the consequences of these decisions on firm performance. We focus on the decision to appoint either a family or external chief executive officer (CEO). The paper...
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Adoptive Expectations : Rising Sons in Japanese Family Firms
Mehrotra, Vikas - 2011
, with the "adopted son" job motivating star managers, and with the threat of displacement inducing blood heirs to invest in …
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Must Love Kill the Family Firm?
Mehrotra, Vikas - 2010
Family firms depend on a succession of capable heirs to stay afloat. If talent and IQ are inherited, this problem is mitigated. If, however, progeny talent and IQ display mean reversion (or worse), family firms are eventually doomed. This is the essence of the critique of family firms in...
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Business Groups in Canada : Their Rise and Fall, and Rise and Fall Again
Morck, Randall - 2015
Family-controlled pyramidal business groups were important in Canada early in the 20th century, amid rapid catch-up industrialization, but largely gave way to widely held free-standing firms by mid- century. In the 1970s and early 1980s – an era of high inflation, financial reversal,...
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The Structure and Formation of Business Groups : Evidence from Korean Chaebols
Almeida, Heitor; Park, Sang Yong; Subrahmanyam, Marti G.; … - 2021
In this paper we study the determinants of business groups' ownership structure using unique panel data on Korean chaebols. In particular, we attempt to understand how pyramids form over time. We find that chaebols grow vertically (that is, pyramidally) as the family uses well-established group...
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The Value of Bosses
Lazear, Edward P. - 2014
10% of boss quality with one who is in the upper 10% of boss quality increases a team's total output by more than would … adding one worker to a nine member team. Workers assigned to better bosses are less likely to leave the firm. A separate …
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