This study sheds light on the importance ofcontrolling for demographic differences in research comparing family andnonfamily businesses. Managers from 757 family and nonfamily firms, varying insize and industry, from the Flanders region of Belgium were surveyed on anumber of variables. Results...

Despite the many contingency studies that investigated how perceived environmental uncertainty (PEU) and strategy relate to the level of planning sophistication, this relationship remains unclear. To gain a better insight into this relationship in SMEs, we investigate the interactive effect of...

This article presents a bivariate comparison of Flemish family and non-family firms, investigating differences with respect to CEO characteristics, strategy, management information systems, environment, financing issues, performance and growth. Several authors have indicated that observed...

This article analyzes the impact of not controlling for "demographic sample" differences on research results in the area of comparative family/nonfamily business research. Using different statistical methods with and without control for "demographic sample" differences, the results show that...