Return on capital in Spanish tourism businesses: A comparative analysis of family vs non-family businesses

Strategic management in private and family businesses

This Special Issue, taking five years to come to fruition, presents the latest research on strategic management in private and family businesses in Asia Pacific regions. Asia Pacific societies have a long history of private and family businesses. For example, a Chinese classic, Records of the Grand Historian (known by its Chinese name Shiji, which was written from 109 BC to 91 BC), includes a c...

survey of a model for capital structure in family-based businesses (covering oil and textile industries)

a limited series of studies on capital structure have been conducted on small-to-medium size enterprises (smes). recent family-bases business literature suggests that these processes are influenced by firm owners’ attitudes toward the utility of debt as a form of financing. other factors like culture, entrepreneurial characteristics, and prior experiences may also be involved. this study intend...

The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on the Financial Performance of Agricultural Family Businesses

    In recent years, with the growth of studies in the field of family business, research on the corporate social responsibility has increased in parallel. Regarding the importance of social responsibility studies in the field of family business, the present study identifies the component of corporate social responsibility in order to investigate its impact on family business performance in Maz...

Family Businesses: The Extensiveness of Succession Problems and Possible Solutions

An Approach for Analyzing the Vulnerability of Small Family Businesses

In a given operating environment, small family businesses typically have fewer resources to minimize vulnerability. Identifying this exposure is basic to strategic analysis and, potentially, public policy analysis. This can become even more important when structural change in the environment is expected while its exact character is not known. The implications of climate change for Australian fa...