Family Business Review articles from March 2000

Family Business Review archives from March 2000

EDITORS' NOTES.(Editorial)
March 1, 2000... Our instincts and experience tell us that the world of commerce and family business is shrinking rapidly. Research indicates that family businesses that are not yet involved in the global marketplace are very interested in pursuing business...

The Role of Wives in Family Businesses: The Paid and Unpaid Work of Women.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2000... This study used data from the 1989 Survey of Consumer Finance to examine wives' economic contributions to family businesses. Wives' contributions to family businesses take several forms: managing the household, working in the business, being...

Succession Experiences in Philippine Family Businesses.
March 1, 2000... Western research suggests that family business owners must prepare for leadership succession in a systematic manner to ensure continuity. A review of the succession experiences of eight family businesses in the Southeast Asian country of the...

The Early Entrepreneurial Stage in Finnish Family and Nonfamily Firms.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2000... This study examined factors influencing the survival and success of 200 Finnish family and nonfamily firms in the metal-based manufacturing industry and business services over the first three years of their operation. The features that this...

The Influence of Going Public on Investment Policy: An Empirical Study of French Family-Owned Businesses.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2000... This article focuses on the lack of capital available to small, private, family-owned businesses or businesses in which the manager and his or her family hold more than 51% of the total number of shares. It claims that being listed might be the...

Navigating the Marketplace: Growth Strategies for Your Business.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Navigating the Marketplace: Growth Strategies for Your Business by Wayne Lovern and Anna Lovern. Central Point, Oregon: Psi Research--Oasis Press, 1998. 265 pp., $21.95 paper. Introduction The title of the book succinctly captures a...

The Successful Family Business.(Review)
March 1, 2000... The Successful Family Business, by Scott E. Friedman. Chicago: Deerborn Publishing, 1998. 229 pp., $22.95 paper. Is your family business a blessing or a curse? If you think your family is safe from infighting, if you think your family...

Limits to the Growth of Family-Owned Business? The Case of Chinese Transnational Corporations from Hong Kong.
March 1, 2000... It has become conventional wisdom in management literature that family-owned business is restricted by its management practices and, therefore, cannot grow beyond a certain size. In the case of Chinese family firms, these practices are related...