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Familiness Qualities, Entrepreneurial Orientation and Long-term Performance Advantage
Irava, Wayne Jeremy - 2009
Familiness has become widely accepted as the appropriate construct representing the unique bundle of resources arising … out of family involvement in business. However as yet we do not fully understand the types of familiness or the conditions … that give rise to them and as such familiness remains in need of further exploration. This research explores the familiness …
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Entrepreneurship and family firms : a case study in growth and survival
Morris, Mervyn J. - 2009
Entrepreneurial marketing has gained popularity in both the entrepreneurship and marketing disciplines in recent times. The success of ventures that have pursued what are considered non-traditional marketing approaches has been attributed to entrepreneurial marketing practices. Despite the...
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Entrepreneurship and family firms : growth and survival
Morris, Mervyn J. - 2009
takes into account some of the unique features of family businesses – such as the importance of ‘familiness’ as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438060
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Between a strategic rock and a hard place: Planning and flexibility in family and non-family firms
Dibrell, Clay; Craig, Justin B. - 2007
In this research, we compare firms' capacity to react to emerging opportunities and threats (strategic flexibility) by assessing strategic initiatives (i.e., strategic planning) in a study of family and non-family firms. We link these behaviours to measures of firm performance. In a study of 360...
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Understanding the relationship between founder-CEOs and firm performance
Adams, Renee; Heitor, Almeida; Ferreira, Daniel - 2009
We use instrumental variables methods to disentangle the effect of founder–CEOs on performance from the effect of performance on founder–CEO status. Our instruments for founder–CEO status are the proportion of the firm's founders that are dead and the number of people who founded the...
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Global securities analysts’ evaluations of family firms in emerging markets: The sociological perspective on the operations of financial markets
Jeong, Young-Chul - 2011
This dissertation advances a sociological view of the stock exchange market. I examine how multiple institutional logics – profession-based logic at the global level and corporate governance-based logic at the national level – influence analysts’ coverage and ratings for family-dominated...
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The views of UK family business owners on flotation
Poutziouris, Panikkos; Wang, Yong - 2004
This empirical research paper draws evidence from a database of UK independent private companies (n=250) and reports on the financial aspirations of owner-managers of family firms with respect to the flotation route. Following a brief review of the literature, the paper proceeds with an...
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Family generation, leadership and performance : the role of outside directors in Indian family firms
Johl, Shireenjit; Jackling, Beverley; Joshi, Mahesh - 2010
This paper addresses the presence of outside directors in family firms in India examining the generation of the firm and years of operation. Aspects of corporate leadership such as family member as CEO, as well as the CEO's role in a founding family firm, are considered in relation to financial...
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Determinants of capital structure for A-REITs
Chikolwa, Bwembya - 2009
Using panel data methodology, the determinants of capital structure in 34 Australia listed property trusts (A-REITs) are investigated for the period 2003-2008. Empirical results reveal that profitability, growth opportunity, and operational risk are negatively related to leverage while size is...
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ESSAYS IN DYNAMIC CORPORATE FINANCE
Michaux, Michael - 2010
My dissertation aims at understanding the financing and investment decisions of firms. It contains two chapters.Chapter One studies the currency composition of debt for firms in emerging economies. Using a dataset of traded Mexican firms, I document two stylized facts about firms in the...
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