Purpose – The purpose of the present paper is to investigate whether the transition from a family business to a non‐family business affects the institutionalisation of management accounting. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on an online survey among all large and...

Purpose This study aims to provide insight into the meaning and perceptions of leadership and its subsequent management control system (MCS) practices in family business in less developed countries. More specifically, the study attempts to understand the cultural context of family business and...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to comprehensively review the empirical literature on management accounting and control in family businesses and to identify future research avenues. Academic interest in the field of management accounting and control in family businesses has increased...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the debt structure of group affiliated firms in Pakistan for the period of 2009-2011. The study seeks to know the level of debt specialization in group affiliated firms. If they do; then how are they different from stand-alone firms?...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the interdependence between regional culture and resilience in family business-dominated regions. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on a literature review and helps to fill the knowledge gap regarding regional culture and resilience...

Purpose – The purpose of this research was to compare the use of non-family-members in the higher-level management team of Arab/Islamic family businesses versus American family businesses. Design/methodology/approach – This research gathered survey data and tested the hypothesis using...

Purpose This paper aims to examine the UK’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) policies under Margaret Thatcher’s era in the 1980s, with a view to understand the success stories, historical development and the structures of Chinese family business through a case study of See Woo...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to find the relationship between education and training and performance of women entrepreneurs (WEs). The present study found that entrepreneurial education stimulates women to take up entrepreneurship as a career option. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose This study aims to examine the role of exploitative learning in entrepreneurial opportunity recognition at the time of war and peace. Design/methodology/approach The paper utilises some unique longitudinal oral history narratives collected from informants from a family business. Findings...

Purpose – This study/paper aims to create an understanding on how a firm develops dynamic capabilities in new strategic dimensions. Innovation in organizations is not an exclusive domain of large firms. Family-owned and -managed firms have aggressively integrated innovation. Focussed...