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Author: Jörg Berner Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This study investigates how different categories of family firms perform and how their investment behavior relates to performance. Based on a sample of 366 publicly quoted companies in Switzerland and Germany, family-related businesses overall and in particular such ones led by family members, but not founders, are established to outperform for both market and book returns. Therefore, against theoretical expectations, founders do in this study not exhibit superior governance than their successors in family firms. Investment intensity is observed to differ among firm groups only for R&D, but not for capital expenditure. Higher as well as more procyclical R&D spending are suggested to negatively correlate with stock returns. As family businesses are characterized by lower and less procyclical R&D investing than nonfamily firms, the group's investment behavior is identified as potential determinant of its outperformance. Founder-led firms demonstrate to be comparably young, growth-oriented companies which are compensating their high business risk with very low financial leverage. The positive correlation of investment intensity and financial leverage for this group is interpreted as tendency to prioritize firm control over business prosperity, as suggested by Gómez-Mejía et al. (2007). Firms led by family successors, on the other hand, tend to be business risk-averse and highly stable over time.
Author: Jörg Berner Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This study investigates how different categories of family firms perform and how their investment behavior relates to performance. Based on a sample of 366 publicly quoted companies in Switzerland and Germany, family-related businesses overall and in particular such ones led by family members, but not founders, are established to outperform for both market and book returns. Therefore, against theoretical expectations, founders do in this study not exhibit superior governance than their successors in family firms. Investment intensity is observed to differ among firm groups only for R&D, but not for capital expenditure. Higher as well as more procyclical R&D spending are suggested to negatively correlate with stock returns. As family businesses are characterized by lower and less procyclical R&D investing than nonfamily firms, the group's investment behavior is identified as potential determinant of its outperformance. Founder-led firms demonstrate to be comparably young, growth-oriented companies which are compensating their high business risk with very low financial leverage. The positive correlation of investment intensity and financial leverage for this group is interpreted as tendency to prioritize firm control over business prosperity, as suggested by Gómez-Mejía et al. (2007). Firms led by family successors, on the other hand, tend to be business risk-averse and highly stable over time.
Author: S. Bhaumik Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137473584 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 132
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Family firms account for a large proportion of firms in most countries. In industrialised countries of North America and Western Europe, they generally account for a large share of small and medium sized enterprises. In emerging market economies such as India, they also account for the majority of the large firms. Their importance for factors such as employment creation notwithstanding, relative to the widely held Anglo-Saxon firms, which are ubiquitous in the economics, finance and management literatures, family firms have historically received much less attention from scholars of these disciplines. However, in part owing to increased focus on emerging markets, there is a growing literature on family firms. In How Family Firms Differ, the authors explore important aspects of family firms, drawing on the existing literature and their own research on these firms.
Author: Jörn Block Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3834984124 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 268
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Family firms are commonly assumed to be more long-term oriented than comparable non-family firms. Joern Block analyzes this phenomenon in more detail and investigates whether and under which conditions family firms pursue more long-term oriented strategies than other firms.
Author: Leif Melin Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 1446265935 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 697
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The SAGE Handbook of Family Business captures the conceptual map and state-of-the-art thinking on family business - an area experiencing rapid global growth in research and education since the last three decades. Edited by the leading figures in family business studies, with contributions and editorial board support from the most prominent scholars in the field, this Handbook reflects on the development and current status of family enterprise research in terms of applied theories, methods, topics investigated, and perspectives on the field′s future. The SAGE Handbook of Family Business is divided into following six sections, allowing for ease of navigation while gaining a multi-dimensional perspective and understanding of the field. Part I: Theoretical perspectives in family business studies Part II: Major issues in family business studies Part III: Entrepreneurial and managerial aspects in family business studies Part IV: Behavioral and organizational aspects in family business studies Part V: Methods in use in family business studies Part VI: The future of the field of family business studies By including critical reflections and presenting possible alternative perspectives and theories, this Handbook contributes to the framing of future research on family enterprises around the world. It is an invaluable resource for current and future scholars interested in understanding the unique dynamics of family enterprises under the rubric of entrepreneurship, strategic management, organization theory, accounting, marketing or other related areas.
Author: John M. Abowd Publisher: Université de Montréal, Centre de recherche et développement en économique ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 94
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We study a longitudinal sample of over one million French workers and over 500,000 employing firms. Real total annual compensation per worker is decomposed into components related to observable characteristics, worker heterogeneity, firm heterogeneity and residual variation. Except for the residual, all components may be correlated in an arbitrary fashion. At the level of the individual, we find that person-effects, especially those not related to observables like education, are the most important source of wage variation in France. Firm-effects, while important, are not as important as person-effects. At the level of firms, we find that enterprises that hire high-wage workers are more productive but not more profitable. They are also more capital and high-skilled employee intensive. Enterprises that pay higher wages, controlling for person-effects, are more productive and more profitable. They are also more capital intensive but are not more high-skilled labor intensive. We also find that person-effects explain 92% of inter-industry wage differentials.
Author: Giorgia Maria D'Allura Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 1788970187 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 352
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"Family firms represent over 90 per cent of businesses globally, and play a significant role in the economies of many nations. This innovative book takes an interdisciplinary, cross-national approach to the study of family firms as institutions as well as the relationship between family firms and external institutions. In doing so, it demonstrates the impact of these interactions both on the firms and institutions themselves and on the wider economic context. Featuring in-depth analysis of original research, chapters take both theoretical and empirical approaches to explore the family firm as an organization, and include several key case studies. At a micro level, the social and cultural unit of the family and its behaviour is investigated, and at a macro level, external institutional contexts are examined to explain and theorise firms' behaviours and strategies, covering areas such as innovation, competitiveness and reputation. The book provides important conceptual insights and critical empirical research, as well as ideas for future research agendas. Family Firms and Institutional Contexts will be a critical read for scholars and doctoral students in business and management, particularly those with an interest in family firms. Policymakers and practitioners in these areas will also find its insights of practical relevance"--
Author: Götz Müller Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH ISBN: 3847100939 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 242
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English summary: There is only limited academic attention paid to the topic of Private Equity Investments in Family Businesses although the topic is becoming increasingly relevant for both entity types. In order to advance the field, this study focuses on the organizational metamorphosis of Family Businesses as a response to a Private Equity investment. In specific, changes in performance and its potential determinants were researched by means of eight case studies. The results indicate a neutral to beneficial performance development when Private Equity companies acquired a majority stake and a neutral development in case of a minority investment. Analyses further revealed that the positive performance improvement correlated with an organizational context that nurtured higher levels of individual discipline and stretch as well as organizational values that became aligned with market imperatives. German description: Investitionen von Private-Equity-Firmen in Familienunternehmen werden fur beide Parteien zunehmend relevanter. Um diesem Gebiet Rechnung zu tragen, wurde die Veranderung der wirtschaftlichen Leistungsfahigkeit von Familienunternehmen im Zuge einer Private Equity Investition in acht Fallstudien untersucht. Die Resultate zeigen eine neutrale bis positive Veranderung der Leistungsfahigkeit wenn Private-Equity-Hauser eine Mehrheitsbeteiligung in Familienunternehmen erwerben. Bei Minderheitsbeteiligungen konnte keine weitreichende Veranderung festgestellt werden. Weiterhin zeigen die Ergebnisse, dass die untersuchten Mehrheitsbeteiligungen einen Kontext entwickeln, welcher das individuelle Leistungsverhalten des Managements zu einem hoheren Masse fordert. Dies beruht vor allem darauf, dass sich jene Firmen zunehmend Umwelt- und Marktbedingungen offnen und neue Operationsweisen adaptieren.
Author: Saim Kashmiri Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 264
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Family firms play a significant role in the U.S. economy, making up about 35 percent of S & P 500 or Fortune 500 companies and contributing about 65 percent to the U.S. GDP. This research explores differences in strategic behavior and firm performance between family firms and non-family firms, and further explores whether family firms such as Dell Inc. that use their founding family's name as part of their firm name (termed family-named firms, or FN firms) behave and perform any differently versus family firms such as Gap Inc. whose firm name does not include their family's name (termed non-family-named firms, or NFN firms). The first study which is based on a multi-industry sample of 130 publicly listed U.S. family firms over a five-year period (2002-2006), reveals that compared to NFN firms, FN firms have significantly higher levels of corporate citizenship and representation of their customers' voice (i.e., presence of a chief marketing officer) in the top management team. FN firms also have a higher strategic emphasis (i.e., a greater emphasis on value appropriation relative to value creation) compared to NFN firms. Furthermore, FN firms perform better (i.e., have a higher ROA) than NFN firms, and their superior performance is partially mediated by their higher corporate citizenship levels and strategic emphasis. In the second study -- an event study of 1294 product introduction announcements of 107 publicly listed U.S. family firms from 2005-2007 -- I find that relative to NFN firms, FN firms are rewarded more by the stock market for introducing new products. Superior returns to FN firms' new product introductions are partially mediated by these firms' history of trustworthy product-related behavior: FN firms, particularly those with corporate branding, and those wherein a founding family member holds the CEO or Chairman position, are more likely to exhibit a history of avoiding such product-related controversies as product safety issues, and deceptive advertising. The third study explores differences in strategic behavior and firm performance between family firms and non-family firms in the context of 7 U.S. economic recessions between the years 1970 and 2008. Findings based on a sample of 428 U.S. publicly listed firms reveal that family firms consistently outperform non-family firms during economic recessions. This superior performance is partially driven by family firms' unique strategic behavior: during recessions, family firms maintain higher levels of advertising intensity, exhibit lower financial leverage, and get involved in fewer social and employee-related unethical actions than non-family firms. The three studies taken together have important implications for family firm, branding, CSR, firm valuation, and innovation-related theory and practice. I highlight these implications in my dissertation.
Author: Jörg Berner
Author: Jörg Berner
Author: Esra Memili
Author: S. Bhaumik
Author: Jörn Block
Author: Leif Melin
Author: John M. Abowd
Author: Giorgia Maria D'Allura
Author: Götz Müller
Author: Esra Memili
Author: Saim Kashmiri