Search results for "Family Business"

Family business entrepreneurs' influence on entrepreneurship education and training : a discussion paper

2009

Entrepreneur education and training are the key concepts for the success and wel-fare of the European societies. In this, the most important actors are the local and national family business entrepreneurs and their enterprises. The challenge for them is to become global and to build international business and social networks with their European counterparts as well as to learn to be motivated in coopera-tion with educational establishments. This study focuses on the online learning program of Global Entrepreneurship developed with the support of family busi-ness entrepreneurs as mentors. The students act as business assistants to the entre-preneurs. The study offers entrepreneurs an excitin…

Yrittäjävalmiudet ja niiden oppiminen : perustaja- ja jatkajayrittäjien käsityksien eroja

2013

Perceptions about Boards in Sme Sized Family Businesses

2009

This paper reports on a study of the attitudes to the formation and roles of formalised active boards in Australian small to medium sized (SME) family businesses. While the literature on governance includes guidelines for effective boards, many family owned businesses perceive they are functioning adequately without formalising a board structure. This study employed a qualitative approach and explored the board functions of nine family business cases drawing on the Hilmer and Tricker (1994) framework. This framework summarises the roles of boards as: formulating strategy, setting policies, supervising executive management and providing accountability. Cases included those with and without a…

Non-family Executives in Family Businesses : a Literature Review

2007

The role of non-family executives in family businesses is under-researched in comparison with its importance. Reviewing the existing literature serves as a startingpoint for promoting future research. Based on a literature analysis, we develop a model for the interaction process between a family owner and a non-family executive. The main contributions for the non-family executive in family business literature are presented and structured following this interaction process. Finally, potential and unanswered questions help determine directions of future research.

Management of Change in Tourism - The Problem of Family Internal Succession in Family Tourism SMEs

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 firms represent the majority (Astrachan and Shanker 2003). Family firms are urged to perform business, strategic, and succession planning for their survival (Knight 1993). Planning for the integration of the younger generation into the family firm is an issue of strategic importance. The purpose of this article is to report the results of a qualitative study among owners of family businesses, interest groups and consultants in order to explore ways in which family int…

Conflicts and Negotiations in the Intergenerational Succession of Family Firms: A Literature Review.

2019

This chapter intends to stimulate a serious debate on the topic of conflict in family businesses and the theory of negotiation as a tool to resolve these conflicts. The methodology is based on the survey of the main literature on these topics. Despite the literature on conflict management is highly developed as well as the literature in family business, scholars and researchers have not yet deepened several areas of conflict management in family businesses, so the two fields of literature are yet not well integrated, showing a potential for future research avenues. We then propose a research agenda identifying the issues and research gaps that should be explored by researchers to reach a de…

Towards better academic research-based education in family business : a cross-national comparison of advanced teaching and learning practices

2003

Perheyritykset edustavat sitä yritysten joukkoa, jotka tulevaisuudessa työllistävät opiskelijoita. Tähän haasteeseen yliopistot ovat vastanneet kehittämällä perheyrittäjyyden opetusta sekä lisäämällä tutkimusta aiheesta. Akateeminen perheyrittäjyyden opetus on kuitenkin vasta alkutaipaleella, mutta perheyrittäjyyden erityislaatuisuus kiehtoo tutkijoita, kouluttajia ja opiskelijoita yhä enenevässä määrin. Perheyrittäjyys sitoutuu edelleen muihin taloustieteellisiin oppialoihin, kuten yrittäjyyteen ja johtamiseen. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli suorittaa monikansallinen vertailu akateemisista perheyrittäjyyden opinnoista ja sitä kautta löytää uutta opetusmateriaalia, jonka avulla voidaan kehit…

International Strategic Alliances and the Internationalization Process: The Family Ownership Effect

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 internationalization intensity, the internationalization commitment, the choice of country and the growth of organisation between family businesses and non-family businesses. Financial data of Italian firms that completed an EISA between 2003 and 2006 were used. The analysis of data shows that family ownership has an effect on the internationalization intensity. In fact, family businesses are more internationalised than non-family businesses if firms have completed an equ…

Branding a family business

2016

This master’s thesis main object was to understand better the very little researched topic: branding a family business. The main aim was to seek the values used behind family business that are the family values used in the brand and how the branding has been implemented in a family company. A qualitative method was chosen for this research for an interpretative analysis of the subject. Five family companies were chosen for the interviews. All these family companies are known Finnish companies which have a great brand and can be defined as true family businesses from their ownership and governance. Before the interview, all interviewees were given a questionnaire which was formulated based o…

How publicly quoted family business organizational behavior reflects financial crisis : a content analysis of the annual reports from 2008 to 2011

2012

The aim in this research is to analyze the strategic reactions the entrepreneurs in public traded family business take towards the global financial crisis. It is mainly based on a bilateral contextual structure: the internal context concerns the Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) five-dimension theoretical framework (Lumpkin & Dess, 1996) under family business background; the external con-text refers to the global financial crisis as a macro environment. Hence, the re-search question can be concluded as “how the entrepreneurs in large publicly traded family firm organizational behavior, named EO, reflects the global financial crisis?” Furthermore, during the analysis process, several assumpti…