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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 …
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Die Situation von Familienunternehmen in Österreich unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Finanzierung und Unternehmensnachfolge
Leyherr, Max - 2000
Die vorliegende Untersuchung erhebt für das Land Österreich Strukturdaten über Familienunternehmen und wertet diese aus …. Sie basiert auf einer schriftlichen Befragung von 122 Familienunternehmen, durchgeführt im ersten Quartal 1998. Die … klassischen Problembereichen von Familienunternehmen. …
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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 businesses (FCBs) in a series of distinct learning phases. Because that study's sample did not include many women, our present study focuses on women in FCBs to better understand how...
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
The family-business literature has thus far not devoted much attention to understanding female vantage points in family firms. A few small-scale studies, notably Poza and Messer (2001) and Curimbaba (2002), describe the varying roles that women adopt, but without explaining why they adopt such...
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
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Epilogue - family business: A rich research repository
Craig, Justin B.; Moores, Ken; Howorth, Carole; … - 2009
Extract: As evidenced in our opening paper Family Business Research at a Tipping Point Threshold (Craig, Moores, Horworth & Poutzouris 2009), family business as a research pursuit has undergone significant growth during the last decade (Heck, Hoy, Poutziouris & Steier 2008; Sharma, Hoy, Astrachan &...
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