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

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 …

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 …

control of one’s career because of lack of job security, knowing one's strengths, putting one's marriage and family before … career, the equality of business associates, family members working in one's business, working in a world market, and the …

examine monopoly (South Africa) and duopoly (South Africa, Australia) with a competitive fringe (US, Canada, Poland, China and …

Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …