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Organizational life cycle stage and controls in Australian family firms

Moores, Ken; Mula, Joseph M. - 2008

Despite their numerical and economic significance to Australia, family businesses have not been extensively researched. This paper reports results from a nation-wide study of Australian family owned businesses that sought to ascertain and understand their management and control practices. In...

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The salience of market, bureaucratic, and clan controls in the management of family firm transitions: Some tentative Australian evidence

Moores, Ken; Mula, Joseph - 2000

Despite the numerical and economic significance of family businesses to Australia, they are not extensively researched. This paper reports some of the results from a nationwide study of Australian family-owned businesses that sought to ascertain and understand their management and control...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441730

Epilogue - family business: A rich research repository

Craig, Justin B.; Moores, Ken; Howorth, Carole; … - 2009

Extract: As evidenced in our opening paper Family Business Research at a Tipping Point Threshold (Craig, Moores, Horworth & Poutzouris 2009), family business as a research pursuit has undergone significant growth during the last decade (Heck, Hoy, Poutziouris & Steier 2008; Sharma, Hoy, Astrachan &...

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Championing family business issues to influence public policy: Evidence from Australia

Craig, Justin B.; Moores, Ken - 2009

This paper proposes a strategy for the family firm sector to gain the attention of policy makers. The strategy builds through influencing social expectations, creating political issues, developing legislative actions which are subsequently implemented and regulated. To achieve this, we suggest...

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Endangering of Businesses by the German Inheritance Tax? – An Empirical Analysis

Houben, Henriette; Maiterth, Ralf - 2011

This contribution addresses the substantial tax privilege for businesses introduced by the German Inheritance Tax Act 2009. Advocates of the vast or even entire tax exemption for businesses stress the potential damage of the inheritance tax on businesses, as those often lack liquidity to meet...

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Corporate Venturing in Family Business: The Effects on the Family and Its Members

Marchisio, Gaia; Mazzola, Pietro; Sciascia, S.; Miles, M.; … - 2010

Previous literature on corporate entrepreneurship (CE) in family business (FB) focusses on the determinants of CE and presents conflicting results on its effects on firm-level performance. We argue that previous studies have overlooked the idea of FBs being complex social systems comprising...

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A Profile of Successful Use of the Internet among West Michigan Family Businesses

Magal, Simha R; Levenburg, Nancy M - 2004

Most business scholars agree that the Internet, which emerged as a commercial medium for both information and transactions in 1990s, has forever changed the business landscape. E-business applications support all parts of an organization’s value chain, including promotion, procurement,...

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Electricity savings from residential appliance standards in Sweden

Turiel, I.; Lebot, B. (Agence Francaise pour la … - 2008

This paper discusses the energy savings that could be obtained in Sweden by instituting specific standards for five … appliances: Refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, clothes washers, and clothes dryers. At the present time, Sweden has no minimum …

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Electricity savings from residential appliance standards in Sweden

Turiel, I.; Lebot, B. [Agence Francaise pour la … - 2008

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MOTIVE FÜR DEN KAUF EINER HEIZUNG - ERGEBNISSE EINER VERBRAUCHERBEFRAGUNG MIT DEM SCHWERPUNKT "HOLZPELLETHEIZUNGEN"

Decker, Thomas - 2007

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 …

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