Family Business Review articles from June 2000

Family Business Review archives from June 2000

EDITORS' NOTES.
June 1, 2000... Family Business Review is, perhaps, best known for its cutting-edge academic research into issues that affect family businesses. FBR also offers other special features each quarter that enhance the service we provide to our readership. Among...

The Salience of Market, Bureaucratic, and Clan Controls in the Management of Family Firm Transitions: Some Tentative Australian Evidence.
June 1, 2000... Despite the numerical and economic significance of family businesses to Australia, they are not extensively researched. This paper reports some of the results from a nationwide study of Australian family-owned businesses that sought to...

Internationalization and Organizational Growth: The Impact of Internet Usage and Technology Involvement Among Entrepreneurled Family Businesses.
June 1, 2000... For many years, large, multinational corporations were thought to dominate international business. It was recently recognized that a number of entrepreneurial and family firms are active in the international arena (Oviatt & McDougall, 1994)....

Family CEOs vs. Nonfamily CEOs in the Family-Controlled Firm: An Examination of the Level and Sensitivity of Pay to Performance.
June 1, 2000... This study examines CEO compensation in 82 founding-family-controlled firms; 47 CEOs are members of the founding family and 35 are not. It tests the family incentive alignment hypothesis, which predicts that family CEOs have superior incentives...

Planning for Family and Financial Success in Family Businesses.
June 1, 2000... Deane Kanaly has observed the success and failure of hundreds of family businesses; he knows what makes family businesses work. He also knows how to plan for financial success. In this interview, he provides insights and suggestions that should...

Strategic Management for Small and Growing Firms.
June 1, 2000... Strategic Management for Small and Growing Firms by Peter M. Markulis, David Szczerbacki, and Barbara J. Howard. Central Point, Oregon: The Oasis Press, 1999. 196 pp., $24.95 paperback. In the last two decades, there was an explosion of...

Your Family, Inc.: Practical Tips for Building a Healthy Family Business.
June 1, 2000... Your Family, Inc.: Practical Tips for Building a Healthy Family Business by Ellen Frankenberg. New York: The Haworth Press, Inc., 1999. 105 pp., $39.95 hardcover, $18.95 paperback. This delightful book makes no pretense about what it is....

You Can't Fire Me, I'm Your Father: What Every Family Business Should Know.
June 1, 2000... You Can't Fire Me, I'm Your Father: What Every Family Business Should Know by Neil N. Koenig, Ph.D. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 1999. 271 pp., $24.95 hardcover. Neil Koenig brings 30 years as clergyman, psychologist, and consultant to...

Guide to the Family Business.
June 1, 2000... Guide to the Family Business, by Peter Leach and Tony Bogod. London: Kogan Page, 1999 (third edition). 267 pp., $25. This book is targeted at "those who are involved in a family business or who are contemplating joining one" and at helping...