60 research outputs found
Handbook of research on family business, 2nd ed./ Edit.: Kosmas X. Smyrnios
No full textxviii, p.779.: ill.; 25 c
Handbook of research on family business, 2nd ed./ Edit.: Kosmas X. Smyrnios
No full textxviii, p.779.: ill.; 25 c
Woman and the glass ceiling: the role of professionalization in family SMEs
No full text‘This is a very business-like book in its approach. It has an impressive global reach in its authorship, focal areas and use of evidence; it hits all the major practical challenges of family firms in a spirit that is fresh and current; and it deals with the cutting-edge themes and issues that are uppermost in the minds of owners, executives, advisors and researchers in the field.’
– Nigel Nicholson, London Business School, UK, author, Managing the Human Animal, Family Wars and The ‘I’ of Leadershi
Working with families in business:A content validity study of the Aspen Family Business Inventory
No full text[Extract] Sandra L. Moncrief-Stuart, Joe Paul and Justin Craig This chapter reports on a research that uses Lawshe’s (1975) individual item method and Gregory’s (1996) overall assessment method, on order to measure the content validity of the Aspen Family Business Inventory (AFBI), an assessment instrument designed specifically for use by consultants working with families in business. Nineteen experts in the field of family business consulting rated the AFBI’s scales and items for relevance, fit, clarity and overall content. In addition to establishing the content validity of the AFBI, this research is designed to familiarize family business consultants and researchers with, and encourage them to use, techniques similar to those introduced in this chapter as a first step in establishing the validity of the instruments that they use in working with families in business. Introduction Businesses are usually categorized by the type of service they offer. These categories include retailers, manufacturers, and service providers. Family businesses are a subset of business found in each of these categories that are made up of organizations formed around a family unit. Despite operating within a wide realm of industries and functions, family businesses possess a number of similarities with each other. Over the past 15 years there has been an increased understanding of the unique dynamics found in family businesses. Understanding family business dynamics involves integrating a variety of disciplines, including family systems theory
Entrepreneurial learning in the family management group : a social organizational learning perspective
No full textSocial, Cultural, and Environmental Drivers of International Students’ Fear of Crime: A Cognitive Behavioral Perspective
No full textThis investigation develops and tests an hypothesised Cognitive Behavioral Fear of Crime Model. Mass media reports of crimes against international students have raised public awareness, questions about racially-oriented victimization, and the need for appropriate preventative strategies. Drawing upon Culture Shock Theory, this study proposes that international students are a vulnerable group, showing elevated levels of fear of crime, perceived risk, and avoidance behaviors. Five-hundred and ninety-one international students across four universities participated in either an online or hardcopy questionnaire survey, the measures of which were adapted from related studies. Structural Equation Modelling demonstrates a nonrecursive relationship between perceived risk, fear of crime, and avoidance behavior, supporting cognitive behavioral theory as an appropriate theoretical conceptualization for investigating fear of crime. Results show that young and female international students express significantly higher levels of fear of crime than their older and male counterparts. International students, who report high levels of social disorder and feel as an outsider or that it is difficult to make friends, express elevated perceived risk and fear of crime. Direct victimization, perceived cultural distance, and host attitudes influence fear of crime and avoidance behavior indirectly via perceived risk. Intriguingly, international students’ perceived prejudice by local residents is a nonsignificant predictor of perceived risk and fear of crime. Findings suggest the importance of social integration, social disorder, cultural differences, and attitudes of locals when it comes to international students’ perceived risk and fear of crime
A Conceptual Model for Evaluating e-Business Capability and Value for Fast Growth Small-to-Medium Enterprises
No full textThis paper develops and integrative research model of drivers of e-business capability and e-business value. Technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework, resource-based view (RBV), and dynamic capability (DC) theories underpin this research. Unlike traditional studies focusing on technology adoption, we concentrate on post-adoption of e-business technology. In this research-in-progress, we build a theoretical model to be tested using structural equation on a dataset of 250 fast growth small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) across different industrial sectors. This research has important implications in regard to sources of competitive advantage, dynamic positional advantage, and firm performance
The push–pull of Indigenous Sámi family reindeer herding enterprises: a metaphor for sustainable entrepreneurship
No full textIT Resources, Supply Chain Coordination Competency And Firm Performance: An Empirical Study
No full textThe much publicized potential benefits of information technology (IT) have given rise to an increased use of IT in supply chain management in recent years. However, the impact of IT investment on firm performance remains unresolved. Drawing on the tenets of resource-based view and supply chain management literature, we propose that IT-supported supply chain collaboration activities can transform IT resources into supply chain coordination competencies to achieve customer satisfaction. Based on data from an online survey of 310 Australian fast-growth small-to-medium-sized enterprises, we tested our proposed model using structural equation modeling (SEM). The results of our SEM exercise show that IT resources do contribute to increasing customer satisfaction. While the adoption of IT may be duplicated by other firms, our findings demonstrate that through a process of integrating firm-specific IT resources with their causally complex supply chain collaboration processes, firms can develop their resource bundles into a unique set of IT-enabled supply chain coordination competency over time. Confirming the catalytic role of supply chain collaboration activities and coordination competencies in transforming IT resources into rent-generating assets, we offer an explanation to the inconsistent effects of IT investments on firm productivity
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