Family Business Review articles from June 1999

Family Business Review archives from June 1999

EDITORS' NOTES.
June 1, 1999... This issue of Family Business Review provides some provocative insights into two timely and relevant issues central to family businesses: internationalization and the emerging global economy, and family business succession. Succession...

Mate Selection and Family Business Success.
June 1, 1999... An index of a family's success is the caliber of talent it manages to attract and retain through marriage. This fundamental fact in sociology, anthropology, and history has received little attention in the family business field. Parents in...

Ten Most Prevalent Obstacles to Family-Business Succession Planning.
June 1, 1999... In a recent presentation at the University of St. Thomas Center for Family Enterprise Family Business Forum, John Davis, a family-business consultant, researcher, and educator, commented that their clients already know everything that...

Founders versus Descendants: The Profitability, Efficiency, Growth Characteristics and Financing in Large, Public, Founding-Family-Controlled Firms.
June 1, 1999... This study examines the differences between founder-controlled firms and firms controlled by descendants or relatives of the founder. In general, we observe that founder-controlled firms grow faster and invest more in capital assets and...

Conflict Management Strategies Used in Successful Family Businesses.
June 1, 1999... This paper analyzes a survey of 59 family businesses. Findings indicate that in comparison to nonfamily businesses, family businesses have a more complex set of issues to consider when managing conflict. The integrative conflict strategies of...

Internationalization of Family Businesses: Evidence from Northwest Ohio, U.S.A.
June 1, 1999... This study determines the extent of internationalization (i.e., global business attitudes and activities) of family businesses. A survey of 187 family businesses from northwest Ohio finds that family businesses do not regularly monitor the...

Succession in the Family Firm: A Cognitive Categorization Perspective.
June 1, 1999... Using cognitive categorization as a foundation, this paper develops a theory of leadership succession in the family firm. We specify a general leadership succession model that includes the process by which both the parent/leader and...

The Re-emergence of Family-Based Enterprises in East Central Europe: What Can Be Learned from Family Business Research in the Western World?
June 1, 1999... We examine to what extent lessons can be drawn from the experiences of family businesses in the Western world toward the re-emerging entrepreneurship in east central Europe. We conclude that often, as it does in the West, the family forms the...

Succeeding Generations: Realizing the Dream of Families in Business.
June 1, 1999... Succeeding Generations: Realizing the Dream of Families in Business. By Ivan Lansberg. Harvard University Press, 1999 (352 pages, $35.00) What do a single-owner business, a sibling partnership, and a multi-shareholder "cousin consortium"...