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The Importance of Planning for Succession in the Family Business Before It Is Too Late : A Case Study of a Small Manufacturing Firm
Johnson, Francisco W. - 2019
The family business discussed in this paper was founded in 1932 and had sustained growth during the first two decades of operation. It had transformed itself from a local to a national business and started to venture into international markets. The founder of the company had one daughter, an...
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Unternehmensnachfolgen in Deutschland : aktuelle Trends
Moog, Petra; Kay, Rosemarie; Schlömer-Laufen, Nadine; … - 2012
. -- Familienunternehmen ; Unternehmensnachfolge ; Deutschland ; Übergeber ; Nachfolger … Unternehmensnachfolge an der Universität Siegen in Kooperation mit dem IfM Bonn im Winter 2008/2009 eine Befragung von bundesweit 14 … SME Research Bonn among 14,203 businesses. Finally, 1,171 businesses owners participated in the survey. Owners, who will …
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When the Daughter Joins Family Firm. Staffing, Adverse Selection and Organizational Justice in Family SMEs
Ferrari, Filippo - 2014
This article provides empirical evidence to support the Agency Theory as applied to small and medium-sized family firms. The research, conducted on a sample of family SMEs (N = 88), has investigated: the career path of son/daughter, the match between job assignment and agent skills, the...
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How May Small Family Businesses Compete Through Tacit Knowledge?
Dessì, Cinzia - 2013
Despite the reported decline of small retail businesses in Western Europe, these businesses still seem to compete and thrive in many urban areas. We explore this puzzle by assessing the closeness of perceptions between managers and customers of two small family-owned and managed businesses...
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Knowledge Management in the SME and its Relationship to Strategy, Family Orientation and Organization Learning
Zhou, Haibo - 2010
In this study, we examine the prevalence of different KM practices and the organizational determinants of KM among SMEs by conducting a quantitative study of empirical data from nearly 500 Dutch SMEs. Our empirical results show that knowledge is managed in a people-based approach in SMEs. SMEs...
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Knowledge transfer in family businesses and its effects on the innovativeness of the next family generation
Letonja, Marina; Duh, Mojca - In: Knowledge management research & practice : KMRP 14 (2016) 2, pp. 213-224
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Advancing tacit knowledge : Malaysian family SMEs in manufacturing
Yew, John Lee Kean; Gomez, Edmund Terence - In: Asian economic papers 13 (2014) 2, pp. 1-31
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Understanding Small Family Business Succession in a Knowledge Management Perspective
Bracci, Enrico - 2011
Business succession in family firms has been one of the most investigated topics through theoretical, empirical and anecdotal studies (Brockhaus, 2004; Sharma, 2004; and Ward, 2004). However, we argue that this bulk of literature seems to neglect the role of the most intangible source of competitive...
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Entrepreneurial orientation and knowledge management for succession : the case of four Mexican family SMEs
Saiz-Alvarez, José Manuel; Baños-Monroy, Verónica Ilián - In: Knowledge integration strategies for entrepreneurship …, (pp. 47-69). 2018
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The Impact of Knowledge Management Strategies on the Relationship between Intellectual Capital and Innovation : Evidence from SMEs
Hayaeian, Sahar; Hesarzadeh, Reza; Abbaszadeh, Mohammad Reza - 2021
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate the moderating role of knowledge management (KM) strategies in developing the effect of intellectual capital (IC) on innovation for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Specifically, the current study explores how different interactions...
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