Purpose This paper considers the multiple social networks of small family businesses and dynamic interactions between them. It analyses family, friendship business way additional ties within become visible when they are considered together rather than separately. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews thirteen family-owned managed used to establish patterns networking. A detaile...

Following the recent French reform on open-market repurchase programs, we investigate the buy and sell behaviour by firms on their own shares. Unlike American studies, we can construct a sample of really bought, sold and cancelled shares for each firm per month. These data come from the registration at the " Commission des operations de bourse (COB) " equivalent to the American SEC. Five standa...

Export and the readiness to export constitute the first step of international marketing, which are affected by both internal and external factors of firms. One of the most important internal factors is the presence of skilled personnel. The purpose of this study was to define the relationship between staff qualification and encouragment with the readiness level of Iranian pharmacuetical firms f...

results of different studies demonstrate that the world-class organizations have better performance in encountering challenges of twenty-first century. therefore developing such features is strongly recommended to iranian firms. most of experts believe that to achieve to world-class situation, the most important factor is marketing, and all organizations should assess themselves about world-cla...

This study attempts to investigate the major antecedent factors that influence manufacturing SMEs intentions toward the implementation of supplier development activities in Iranian SMEs. In order to achieve this objective, the research constructs were developed. The conceptual framework underlying this study was based on the theories of supplier development activities and social capital.  These...

Despite the prevalence and economic importance of the family-owned firms and group -affiliated firms in north America, Western Europe and East-Asia, little attention, if any, has been given to these types of organizations in finance. Using parametric and non parametric tests on a sample of Canadian listed firms, this paper provided empirical evidence of sharp contrast in financial features and ...

the psocid specimens were collected from isfahan in 2009 and later identified as liposcelis paeta pearman and l. bostrychophila badonnel (psocoptera: liposcelididae). the species l. paeta is recorded here for the first time from iran. this finding increases the number of known iranian members of the family liposcelididae to five species.