We examine the performance of 84 firms that adopt value-based management (VBM) systems during the period 1984-1997. The typical firm significantly improves matched-firm-adjusted residual income after adopting VBM. This improvement persists for the five post-adoption years studied. After controlling for possible sample bias, we find that large firms show less improvement than small firms. We fin...

Innovation is an investment in future growth and development, it critical for family businesses to maintain a competitive advantage. Different types of innovation inputs have different uncertainties, advantages, risks. Product process are two distinct that necessitate significantly organizational resource allocation risk taking. Ownership the source decision-making authority, dispersion intra-f...

Abstract This paper analyzes and supports the claim that Vedic Sanskrit preserves traces of contrast between Indo-European labiovelars plain velars—a striking archaism in Indo-Iranian family, which otherwise collapsed two velar series. These labiovelar vestiges emerge because pervasive labialization syllabic consonantal rhotics at all attested stages family. Two rhotic environments are examined...

Basado en la teoría de agencia conductual, este trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar relación entre los CEOs familiares y las prácticas sociales ambientales adoptadas por empresas cotizadas Iberoamérica, cómo composición del consejo administración (tamaño, independencia participación mujeres consejeras) modera esta relación. Un panel datos no balanceado integrado 836 observaciones-año durante e...

This epidemiological review was carried out to display the magnitude and the geographic distribution of scorpion envenomation in Iran with focus on the southwestern region of Iran, particularly. The Iranian recognized scorpions belonging to two families, including Buthidae and Scorpionidae. Buthidae family consists of 14 genuses, 26 species, and 18 sub-species, while Scorpionidae family has thr...

In this paper, we claim that ownership is a key determinant of the firms' divestment-reinvestment sequence in foreign country. Building on notion ‘relational vs. transactional ownership’, distinguish between relational-type firms (namely, family-owned and state-owned firms), transactional-type (privately non-family-owned firms). We argue are less likely to both divest from, reinvest in, given f...

We studied the effect of family control on the characteristics of small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises located in the Northern Italian province of Bergamo. The analysis included aspects such as demographic characteristics, cost and productivity of labour, financial ratios, and the performance of 745 SMEs. Family‐ controlled firms emerged as a predominant organiza...