concentric dispersion of the Reformation to use distance to Wittenberg as an instrument for Protestantism. We find that … Protestantism indeed led to higher economic prosperity, but also to better education. Our results are consistent with Protestants …

, between the current leader of a family business and the prospective future leader when one is the parent and the other, a next …-generation offspring. In light of previous literature that identified seven personal characteristics of the family business leader that …

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 … risk for the beneficiaries, thus raising market transaction costs. The problem is mitigated when parents care directly …

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 …