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Performance-Studie deutscher Familienunternehmen
Leiber, Marietta Kersten - 2008
Die Arbeit untersucht die Performance von Familienunternehmen im Rahmen einer empirischen Studie anhand von 892 Datens … Familienunternehmen durch den Einsatz vielf?ltiger Familienvariablen hinsichtlich der Aspekte Eigentum, Kontrolle und Management … Eignerfamilien und externen Anteilseignern gelten als urs?chlich f?r Performanceunterschiede zwischen Familienunternehmen und …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482315
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The role of the board in firm strategy: Integrating agency and organisational control perspectives
Hendry, Kevin; Kiel, Geoffrey C. - 2004
The role of the board of directors in firm strategy has long been the subject of debate. However, research efforts have suffered from several deficiencies: the lack of an overarching theoretical perspective, reliance on proxies for the strategy role rather than a direct measure of it and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448197
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The value of managerial beliefs in turbulent environments: Managerial Orientation and E-Business Advantage
Coltman, T.; Devinney, T. M.; Midgley, D. F. - 2008
on the firm or industry but is reflective of the strength of the beliefs held by managers. This implies that the "black …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457344
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Agency Trade-offs in Family Firms: Theoretical Model, Empirical Testing and Implications
Yupitun, Mark Anson - 2008
Agency theory is one of the principal frameworks utilized in explaining the family business phenomena. The objectives of this dissertation are to (1) identify the unique agent-principal dynamics that differentiate family firms from non-family firms, (2) determine the effects of these unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441576
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Spotlights and shadows: Preliminary findings about the experiences of women in family business leadership roles
Barrett, Mary; Moores, Ken - 2009
In an earlier study (Moores & Barrett 2002) we found successful CEOs had learned leadership of family controlled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441587
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Women learning business leadership: Journeys in the family firm
Barrett, Mary; Moores, Ken - 2008
Barrett, 2002) we found that successful family firm CEOs encountered a series of unique paradoxes. Exploring, understanding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441639
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Agency differences in professional family businesses: the known and the unknown
Moores, Ken; Craig, Justin B. - 2008
We suggest in this paper one of the reasons that researchers concur agency costs in family firms are more complex than originally thought maybe related to the lack of conceptual clarity. This, we propose, is because when frameworks and theories are borrowed and enthusiastically embraced without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441647
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Destructive leadership in family businesses: Modelling social exchange between generations
Robinson, David; Harvey, Michael G.; Yupitun, Mark - 2009
The purpose of this article is to address the effects of social exchange, in particular leadership communication, 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441716
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Organizational life cycle stage and controls in Australian family firms
Moores, Ken; Mula, Joseph M. - 2008
Despite their numerical and economic significance to Australia, family businesses have not been extensively researched. This paper reports results from a nation-wide study of Australian family owned businesses that sought to ascertain and understand their management and control practices. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441725
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The salience of market, bureaucratic, and clan controls in the management of family firm transitions: Some tentative Australian evidence
Moores, Ken; Mula, Joseph - 2000
Despite the numerical and economic significance of family businesses to Australia, they are not extensively researched. This paper reports some of the results from a nationwide study of Australian family-owned businesses that sought to ascertain and understand their management and control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441730