Family Business Review articles from March 1997

Family Business Review archives from March 1997

EDITORS' NOTES.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... The first issue of 1997 contains many innovations, both in the content of Family Business Review and in the ideas contained in the articles. One innovation is the inclusion of a case study and case reviews. The articles also carry new ideas:...

Strategic Management of the Family Business: Past Research and Future Challenges.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... This article reviews the literature on family business from a strategic management perspective. In general, this literature is dominated by descriptive articles that typically focus on family relationships. However, the literature does not...

Research Note Perceptions Are Reality: How Family Meetings Lead to Collective Action.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... Family meetings develop family unity through the creation of perceived shared beliefs. The article presents a model with strategic implications showing how shared beliefs lead to collective action, which leads to outcomes and then the...

Non-Market-Based Transfers of Wealth and Power: A Research Framework for Family Business.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... Family businesses are basically owner-managed enterprises with the family involved within the business. When, to family ties within the business, is added the biological inevitability of an eventual transfer of power, family succession becomes...

Noren Discount Stores: Death of a Family Business.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... This case is about a family-owned discount store chain that was unable to survive much beyond its founder. It tells the story of a first-generation American family and its struggle to grow and prosper in a family business during the early...

Salvatore Ferragamo, SpA.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... Case: Salvatore Ferragamo, SpA Source: Harvard Business Review, Case Reference #9-392-023 Length: 25 pp. (includes exhibits and pictures) Industry: Women's shoes, men's and women's clothing and accessories Case Review: ...

Sorelle Bakery and Cafe.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... Case: Sorelle Bakery and Cafe Source: Harvard Business Review, Case Reference #9-493-003 Sorelle Bakery and Cafe Length: 5 pp. Industry: Food service; Restaurants. Case Review: As the Sorelle Bakery and Cafe grew...

Norman Machinery Products, Inc.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... Case: Norman Machinery Products, Inc. Source: Harvard Business Review, Case Reference #9-277-027 Length: (A), 1971, 10 pages + exhibits; (B & C), 1972-1975; 14 pages + exhibits Industry: Industrial Machinery Manufacturing Case...

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families.(Brief Article)(Review)
March 22, 1997... The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, by Steven R. Covey. The Covey Leadership Center, audio tape set (six hours), $29.95. In these four audiotapes, Steven Covey combines his powerful and popular model of The 7 Habits of Highly...

Home-Based Employment and Family Life.(Brief Article)(Review)
March 22, 1997... Home-Based Employment and Family Life, Edited by Ramona K. Z. Heck, Alma J. Owen, and Barbara R. Rowe, Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 1995. 277 PP. $65.00, hardcover. Home-Based Employment and Family Life is a collection of valuable...

The Best of FBR: A Celebration.(Brief Article)(Review)
March 22, 1997... The Best of FBR: A Celebration, Edited by Richard Beckhard. The Family Firm Institute: 1996. 268 pp. $49.00. Four of this nation's most prominent practitioners in the field of family business collaborated to pull together this collection...