inversely related to the economic status of the family, but the measure of economic status used has not always been the same. In …

be applied in the family business context. In this article we add familiness to the four BSC perspectives (financial … succession planning in family-owned businesses. We use an action research project to highlight how family businesses can … professionalize their management by the adoption of a BSC strategy map that includes a family business focus and links the core …

Abstract Drawing on the family embeddedness perspective on entrepreneurship and the resource-based-view (RBV) of the … firm, we investigate how the promotion of family-based brand identity influences competitive orientation (customer versus … product) and firm performance in family businesses. Applying structural equation modeling to survey data collected from …

Family-owned businesses represent the majority of business in the United States. As consumers and employees, we are … success of family-owned businesses, but only one third of these organizations successfully transition to the second generation … challenges, these practices fail to account for the various types of family-owned businesses. More specifically, many types of …

The family business literature has thus far not devoted much attention to understanding female vantage points in family … family businesses, specifically how various roles allow them to progressively learn skills and competencies.In an earlier … book (Moores and Barrett, 2002) we found that successful family firm CEOs encountered a series of unique paradoxes …

The purpose of this study was to examine many factors associated with family-owned businesses that lead to business … success and profitability. The panel data used in this study came from the 1997 and 2000 waves of the National Family Business …

Paper prepared for presentation at the 7th Industrieforum PelletsStuttgart (Germany), 10th October 2007 …Compared to other heating markets the wood pellets market is quite young and small in Germany. Nevertheless it is a … within the scope of this project. Therefore people in different parts of Germany have been asked about their heating system …

procuring full remuneration throughout the leave period. However, the mandatory maternity leave system in Germany is not an …

of uncertainty measures based on GSOEP data from Eastern (and for comparison purposes also Western) Germany for the years … Eastern Germany during its transition than in Western Germany and had a highly nonlinear effect on the probability of a birth … uncertainty in East Germany in the transition could have contributed significantly to the sharp fall and unusually low level of …