Family Business Review articles from December 1997

Family Business Review archives from December 1997

EDITORS' NOTES.
December 1, 1997... This last issue of 1997 poses some interesting issues for family business. Three research articles, an invited commentary, a time-valued classic article and an interview with one of the great thinkers of family business and business, psychology...

Growing the Family Business: Special Challenges and Best Practices.
December 1, 1997... Most family businesses simply don't grow. This paper explores the reasons for and theories behind business stagnation and proposes a set "best practices" that can revitalize a firm and enhance its performance. According to popular...

Team Building and Conflict Management: Strategies for Family Businesses.
December 1, 1997... In this study, we investigate the use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) as an instrument to improve relationships among family team members in family businesses. We conducted a workshop on personality differences based on the MBTI for...

Women in Family Business.
December 1, 1997... This paper is condensed from the author's qualitative research study on women in family business. Women and other family members were interviewed on how gender-related issues affect their work. Also included is an extensive literature review...

Succession Planning in Family Business: The Impact of Owner Gender.
December 1, 1997... Research on succession planning in family businesses has largely neglected issues linked to owner gender. The present study examines the extent to which differences are evident between male- and female-led family businesses in succession...

Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow: A company's past has clues for management that are critical to future success.
December 1, 1997... Foreword This author maintains that growing organizations move through five distinguishable phases of development each .of which contains a relatively calm period of growth that ends with a management crisis. He argues, moreover, that...

A Conversation with Harry Levinson.
December 1, 1997... Harry Levinson, PhD, is a pioneer in the people-management side of business. He is a professor emeritus at the Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School and author of twenty Harvard Business Review articles and numerous books. He also...

The Ultimate Legacy.
December 1, 1997... The Ultimate Legacy, by Donald J. Jonovic. Cleveland: Jamieson Press, 1997. 276 pp. $29.95, hardcover. The Ultimate Legacy draws on many years of experience working with family businesses. Donald Jonovic has "been in the trenches" and...

The Stewardship of Private Wealth.
December 1, 1997... The Stewardship of Private Wealth by Sally S. Kleberg. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997. 337 pp., $35.00, hardcover. Now that we are in the midst of the historic transfer of $10 trillion from the World War II generation to its baby-boomer...