In the recent years the strategic planning process has undergone important changes. It is becoming more and more difficult to predict even medium term performances, this being due to great number of uncertainties and risks: technological and environmental changes, geopolitical factors and...

This paper analyzes family-owned banks in Thailand. Using the data before the financial crisis, we find that wealthy families extensively use pyramids to control a business empire which includes financial and non-financial firms. We analyze the entire family group structure and find that...