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Examining relationships among family influence, family culture, flexible planning systems, innovativeness and firm performance

open access: yesJournal of Family Business Strategy, 2014
The purpose of this article is to draw on the resource-based view of the firm and the upper echelons theoretical perspective to position family influence, family business culture and flexible planning systems as drivers of firm innovativeness, and ...
Clay Dibrell, Justin B Craig
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Collectivist Cultures and the Emergence of Family Firms

The Journal of Law and Economics, 2022
Using a sample of 1,103 Chinese private-sector firms that went public during 2004–16, we find that founders of firms from regions with stronger collectivist cultures engage more family members as managers, retain more ownership in the family, and share the controlling ownership with more family members.
Fan, Joseph P. H., Gu, Qiankun, Yu, Xin
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Investigation of Organizational Culture in Family Firms

2021
The goal of the chapter is to provide an in-depth and comparative understanding of the instruments of organizational culture that exist and provide a review of academic research evidence on their performance in family firms. Furthermore, the chapter will provide an additional insight into a novel instrument for diagnosing organizational alignment – Vox
Ana Tomovska Misoska   +3 more
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Families and firms: The culture and evolution of family firms in britain and italy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Scandinavian Economic History Review, 1999
Abstract Family firms played a very similar role in the industrialisation of both Britain and Italy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In both countries the relatively-low transaction costs of family and community in an uncertain world meant that family capitalism predominated, whilst trends in the late nineteenth century and inter-war period ...
Rose, M B, Colli, A
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The role of culture in family firms

Small Business Economics
Although family firms are ubiquitous, their prevalence displays major geographic disparities and their performance differs across regions. We review an extensive literature showing that formal institutional factors play a key role in explaining variations in the diffusion of family firms and their performance.
Danny Miller, Mario Amore
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Culture and Continuity in Family Firms

Family Business Review, 1988
The culture of the family firm plays an important role in determining the success of the business beyond the first generation.
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Family Firm and Community Culture

Family Business Review, 1988
When a family firm is acquired, how will its culture and performance be affected by the culture of the new parent company?
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Relative Merits: Family Culture and Kinship in Small Firms

Sociology, 1993
Small firms are saturated with the ideology of the family. For some, the notion of the `family firm' conjures up an image of harmony at the workplace; moreover, it is seen to serve as an important source of flexibility. Others, however, view it as little more than a cover-up of exploitative practices which are believed to be dominant in small firms ...
Ruth Holliday, Ram, Monder
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Storytelling and cultural family value transmission: Value perception of stories in family firms

Management Learning, 2016
This study analyses the transmission of cultural family values in family firms through storytelling. Specifically, we investigate whether cultural family values that are intended to be imparted by a story and its teller are also perceived accurately by listeners (i.e. the intended imparted value and the perceived value are congruent).
Zwack, Mirko   +3 more
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Family firms in the Arab world: culture influences on socioemotional wealth

International Journal of Transitions and Innovation Systems, 2018
The Arab world is an area of growing economic significance, resulting in dynamic developing and transaction economies. In such a scenario, family firms are predominant and the backbone of the system. Due to the overlapping of the business and family logics, family firms differ from the traditional businesses, especially in terms of goal-setting and ...
Petrolo D.   +3 more
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