2011, Volume 5, Issue 1-2
Recent Submissions
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Family Business Governance Structures : Incidence and Effects
(Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, 2011)The research focused on governance systems in family businesses and was based on survey data from 241 organizations. Analyses found 25 percent of the family busi-nesses had no structured system and 75 percent had governance ... -
Family Versus Non Family Firms in the Luxury Yachts Sector: Strategy – Structure Combination to Manage the Performance
(Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, 2011)The main goal of this study is to analyze the impact of strategy-structure combination on performance, adding a new variable: the family. The research considers the well-known strong link between strategy and structure to ... -
How Does Family Management Affect Firm Performance : Evidence from Taiwanese Firms
(Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, 2011)This study used the panel data of 465 Taiwanese listed companies by applying both accounting and market-value indicators to an examination of family management’s influence on firm performances. The empirical results show ... -
Start-Up Motivations and Growth Orientation of Owners of Family Business – A Care Entrepreneurship Approach
(Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, 2011)Comparisons between family business and non-family business are still quite rare in some business areas. The aim of this article is to analyse the start-up motivations and growth orientation of family business in the area ... -
Intellectual Capital and Property Rights (IPR) as the Key Asset of a Family Firm : A Case Study with an Evaluation Approach
(Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, 2011)The role of immaterial production factors is becoming more and more important and they are estimated to be over two-thirds of what is required in production in our post-industrial time. Accordingly, the discussion of ... -
Evaluation Framework for the Trans-Generational Succession Process in Family Business
(Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, 2011)Evaluation Framework for the Trans-Generational Succession Process in Family Business -
Succession in Multi-Generational Family Firms. An Exploratory Study into the Period of Anticipatory Socialization
(Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, 2011)Family business scholars have argued that succession entails all actions and events that occur between generations to transfer ownership and/or management. Building on this definition, I focus explicitly on the period prior ...