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 …

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 …