This study presents evidence that structured management practices and their relationship to productivity can vary with … a firm's external institutional linkages. Combining ideas from new institutionalism with the empirical management … literature, we formulate propositions of how external linkages could affect the development and utility of structured management …

This paper investigates how family ownership, control and management affect firm investment performance. We use the … identity of the CEO and the COB to establish under what management the firm is: founder, descendent or external management. The … analysis shows that founder management has no effect on investment performance in family firms, whereas descendant management …

strategic management. The findings reveal a more managerial form of organization in which the core elements of the traditional …