Electronic journal of family business studies : EJFBS
The Electronic Journal of Family Business Studies (EJFBS) publishes online theoretical and empirical articles, book reviews, and case studies on family business research. The EJFBS is published by the University of Jyväskyla (Finland, Europe). It provides a channel for reporting the latest results of family business research after a double-blind review process. For more information please see the journal website. ISSN 1796-9360.
Recent Submissions
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2011, VOLUME 5, ISSUE 1-2 (The entire issue)
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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 ... -
Editorial notes
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Management of Change in Tourism - The Problem of Family Internal Succession in Family Tourism SMEs
(Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, 2010)“World-wide, the family business constitutes the most prevalent form of business or-ganization” (Poutziouris et al. 2004, p. 7). Alpine tourism is also dominated by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME), among which ... -
Family Business Reputation: A Literature Review and Some Research Questions
(Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, 2010)Although there is a heightened interest in the concept of corporate reputation, only a limited number of studies have been done in the literature. Moreover, the methodological debate of these studies does not reach a ... -
Legal-Economic Ownership and Generational Transfer in Family Business: Facets of Owner's Responsibility
(Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, 2010)In the following paper a conceptual framework of the owner’s responsibility is created in order to study the transgenerational legal-economic ownership in the family business. Responsible ownership involves a sense of ... -
International Strategic Alliances and the Internationalization Process: The Family Ownership Effect
(Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, 2010)This study examines whether the ownership structure of Italian firms affects the internationalization process of firms that completed equity international strategic alliances (EISA). This paper provides a comparison of the ... -
2010, VOLUME 4, NUMBER 2 (The entire issue)
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Editor's note
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2010 VOLUME 4, NUMBER 1 (The entire issue) : Special Issue on Social Capital
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Farm Family Business: The Relevance of District-Contexts in the Consumption of Rural Development Policies
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A Tridimensional Model to Analyze Management Style of Small Family Business Founders
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Learning Networks Producing Creative Quality and Value Innovations - Case Study in Finnish Family Business Context
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Bridging Social Capital in the Foreign Market Entry and Entry Mode Change of Family SMEs
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