Socioemotional wealth in gay-owned family businesses: A pitch

Employee Owned Businesses – Access to Funding

Family Involvement and Firm Governance: In the View of Socioemotional Wealth Protection

Family business is one of the things in the past, also is the existing way, the model of the future. Based on the 1420 private companies listed in China for 7 years (2006-2012), data statistical analysis found that with the increasing of the year, two rights separation degree of private enterprises were falling. As the change of the institutional environment, involved in the enterprise internal...

Strategy Diversity in Australian Family Owned Businesses: Impact of environment induced constraints

With an ever changing economic climate many businesses find it difficult to survive. Small firms are continually going out of business in the early stages of their life. According to the Queensland Small Business Development Corporation, the small business failure rate is high with two-thirds of all such businesses started failing within their first five years of operation (SBDC, 1990). The maj...

Family Control, Socioemotional Wealth and Earnings Management in Publicly Traded Firms

We examine the unique nature of agency problems within publicly traded family firms by investigating the earnings management decision of dominant family owners relative to nonfamily. To do so, we draw upon literature demonstrating that family owners are loss averse with respect to the family’s socioemotional wealth (SEW), or the affective endowment derived from firm ownership and control. Our t...

Are Foreign-Owned Businesses in Vietnam Really Sweatshops?

Globalization is leading to increased economic interactions between the U.S. and almost every other country in the world. A growing percentage of the American economy is devoted to foreign trade, and many U.S. businesses are establishing offices, factories, and other economic ventures in other countries. Most economists claim that globalization is, on the whole, a beneficial phenomenon—and one ...