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 …

The family business literature has thus far not devoted much attention to understanding female vantage points in family … family businesses, specifically how various roles allow them to progressively learn skills and competencies.In an earlier … book (Moores and Barrett, 2002) we found that successful family firm CEOs encountered a series of unique paradoxes …

substitutes to family transfers that can reduce parental influence on children's activities and lead to bad market outcomes. Thus …, government programs need to be redesigned to reinforce rather than usurp family values and parental influence over their children. …is a description of the paper and not the actual abstract. This paper analyzes how transfers among family members …

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 … determine opinion of children about advertising, also to ascertain if children are loyal to brand names. The thesis is divided …

success and profitability. The panel data used in this study came from the 1997 and 2000 waves of the National Family Business …The purpose of this study was to examine many factors associated with family-owned businesses that lead to business … Study (NFBS). Many independent variables from the 1997 wave (e.g., age, gender, managerial activities, business size, home …