Family Business Review articles from June 1997

Family Business Review archives from June 1997

EDITOR'S NOTES.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1997... This issue of Family Business Review strives for greater relevance for those who work with and advise family businesses. Included is an exploration of the pros and cons of mediation for resolving family business disputes, ways to think about...

Resolving Family Business Disputes Through Mediation.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1997... This first section is a collaborative piece that introduces a new format for Family Business Review. The first article discusses how mediation could be utilized in family-business disputes and includes a brief case study. The second set of...

Stakeholder Perceptions of Culture and Management Practices in Family and Family Firms -- A Preliminary Report.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1997... The research reported here represents part of an on-going project. Family businesses participating in the Partnership with Family Business at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, completed questionnaires that...

Choosing the Successor in New Zealand Family Farms.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1997... Farmers in family businesses are often interested in generational succession. Yet farming parents are often unclear about the process of choosing a successor. We undertook a grounded-method study of the succession process among New Zealand...

An Interview with Judy G. Barber: Prenuptial Agreements, Intimacy, Trust and Control.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1997... A business-owning family and a soon-to-be-wed couple often face two mutually exclusive goals that seem impossible to reconcile. On the one hand, a couple considering marriage wants to believe that love alone will keep them together. On the...

Annotated Bibliography: Prenuptial Agreements.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1997... A common perception of prenuptial agreements is their divisive and impersonal nature. The formal contract comes between fiance and fiancee, between the engaged couple and their money, and between the engaged couple and the family. Routinely,...

A Conversation with Henry Mintzberg.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1997... Henry Mintzberg is both Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and professor of organization at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. His research deals with issues of general management and...

Leading Change by John P. Kotter. Boston.(Review)
June 22, 1997... Leading Change by John P. Kotter. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1996. 187 pp., $24.95 hard cover. This book is a very worthwhile expansion of Kotter's March-April 1995 Harvard Business Review article. The article was one of the...

Born to Rebel.(Review)
June 22, 1997... Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives, by Frank J. Sulloway. New York: Pantheon Books, 1996. 653 pp. $30.00. Frank Sulloway does not make modest claims. Indeed, his arguments in his new book, Born to Rebel: Birth...

The Living Company.(Review)
June 22, 1997... The Living Company: Habits for Survival in a Turbulent Business Environment, by Arie De Geus. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997.215 pp., $24.95 hardcover. To some extent, the market for corporate control is out of whack: Chief...