Evolutionary Psychology and Family Business: A New Synthesis for Theory,...

Family Business Review;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......to the study of family business but have an overarching...different about family firms before outlining...Introduction The family business field is booming...research about family firms prevents research...difference between family and nonfamily...vulnerabilities ...

First-, Second-, and Third-Generation Family Firms: A Comparison

Family Business Review;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......third-generation family firms, and there are...Introduction Family business as a field of...empirical body of family business literature by...others who assist family firms by allowing...this study, a family business is one in which...business as a ...

Are Family Firms Born or Made? An Exploratory Investigation

Family Business Review;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......be born as family firms or do they become family firms at a later...implications for family business studies. In...that most family firms are born that...between age and family involvement...existence of family firms by applying...start as a ...

Succession and nonsuccession concerns of family firms and agency...

Family Business Review;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......272 Canadian family firms. Results show...predominant focus of family business researchers on...Introduction Family firms are known for...with specific family firms. Not surprisingly...Commenting on the family business literature, Wortman...

A 10-Year Longitudinal Investigation of Strategy, Systems, and Environment...

Family Business Review;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......studies innovation in family firms, filling in some...between established family firms and innovation may...innovation within family firms, authors have suggested that family firms could be very innovative...1983), and so on, family business is an ...

Regional economy as a determinant of the prevalence of family firms in the...

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......firms. Given that family firms may be fundamentally...economic reasons family firms tend to be so prevalent...the importance of family firms to the world economy...the prevalence of family firms may also help us...implications of family firms' formation ...

A comparative analysis of strategic marketing practices of high-growth...

Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship;  August 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......family and non-family firms in the United...younger non-family firms follow a...strategy, family firms follow an...age, and family firms are more...Key words: Family firms, marketing...Introduction Family firms are rarely...indicated ...

Entrepreneurship in family vs. non-family firms: a resource-based analysis...

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......understand that their family firms' survival depends...distinctiveness of the family firms' products and therefore...important that family firms are able to innovate...over time some family firms become conservative...1989). Founders of family firms, who ...

Determinants of Initial Satisfaction with the Succession Process in Family...

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice;  March 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......the core of the family business literature. Numerous...succession process in family firms? To study this...reviewed the family business literature on...non-family members in family firms or between unrelated...succession process in family firms. In ...

The Bulleye: A Systems Approach to Modeling Family Firms

Family Business Review;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......model of family business that accounts...dynamics among family business subsystems...context of family business, which may...building on family business. Furthermore...may help family business practitioners...particularities of family firms. ...

Personalism, particularism, and the competitive behaviors and advantages...

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......firm are that family firms will behave...behaviors of family firms will also...willingness of family firms to behave...different types of family firms. Introduction...theories of family business presents a...behavior, family business scholars ...

Why family firms can no longer afford to be clannish

Evening Standard - London;  October 11, 2000 ;     417 words ...KEEP it in the family used to be the guiding...increases and British family firms determined to survive...five years' worth. The family business survey was commissioned...Manchester Business School by Family Business Network (FBN), a nonprofit-maki...Business School. He said: ...

Entrepreneurial Risk Taking in Family Firms

Family Business Review;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Family firms are widely...time, some family firms become conservative...manufacturing family firms. The results...conclude that family businesses...structure of the family business ensures an...its owners. Family firms' ownership...also pervade ...

The Board of Directors in Family Firms: One Size Fits All?

Family Business Review;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......prescriptions for family firms interested in...Introduction The family business board of directors...perspectives on family business boards should...of directors in family firms will improve their...directors in the family business literature? Are...board ...

Family firms lose out in regeneration game

The Scotsman;  May 8, 1998 ;     700+ words ......best-known independent cinemas, still run by the family who founded it, will be 65 next year. He doesn...cent are handed down twice. In the Far East, family firms are economic superpowers, but in the West...as their next chairman. The Stoy Centre for Family Business tries to help ...