Adjustment strategies of 337 farm men and women who faced economic stress were studied. Thirty-seven strategies were combined into one total-item scale with four subscales (increasing and extending money income, decreasing money expenditures, increasing household labor income, and increasing...

The purpose of this article is to assess and interpret the use of theory within the Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning from its inception in 1990 through 2012. During that time, only 39% of research articles explicitly identified a theoretical base to guide the study's research...

Effective quality management requires setting appropriate goals for the firm. Quality management practices of small farm and non-farm family businesses are compared and a multi nomial logit model was used to analyze the choice of primary business goal by the firm owner. Business owners had the...

This study examined potential impacts of financial resources and values on emerging adults’ choice in committed relationships (N = 424, 26–35 years). Guided by Deacon and Firebaugh’s (1988) Family Resource Management theory, financial self-sufficiency and forming a committed relationship...

Natural disasters are expected to increase in number and severity. This study initiates a stream of research on effective family business strategies to address the threat of natural disasters to long-term survival and growth of family firms. The purpose of this study was to analyze the...