Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …

effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …

inversely related to the economic status of the family, but the measure of economic status used has not always been the same. In …

be applied in the family business context. In this article we add familiness to the four BSC perspectives (financial … succession planning in family-owned businesses. We use an action research project to highlight how family businesses can … professionalize their management by the adoption of a BSC strategy map that includes a family business focus and links the core …

Abstract Drawing on the family embeddedness perspective on entrepreneurship and the resource-based-view (RBV) of the … firm, we investigate how the promotion of family-based brand identity influences competitive orientation (customer versus … product) and firm performance in family businesses. Applying structural equation modeling to survey data collected from …

is a description of the paper and not the actual abstract. This paper analyzes how transfers among family members … recipients, transfers aimed at insuring family members against market risk may have the unintended effect of increasing market … substitutes to family transfers that can reduce parental influence on children's activities and lead to bad market outcomes. Thus …

suggests a strong negative response of female labor supply to changes in their husband's wages. Family labor supply behavior … determines how changes in individual wage rates translate into family earnings changes. The responses of women to changes in … their husband's wages attenuated somewhat the increases in individual wage inequality at the family level: The results …

reveal why child, influenced through advertising, can influence the shopping habits of his family. Also it is intended to …