Family control of business is prevalent in developing economies, and one of the leading theories suggests that it is a response to weak contract enforcement in such economies. In this paper, we investigate the impacts of contract enforcement on the degree of family control of business using a sample of China’s private enterprises. It is found that weaker contract enforcement is associated with ...

Scholars have recently paid growing attention to the transfer of family legacies across generations, but existing work has been mainly focused on an inward-oriented, intra-family, perspective. In this article, we seek understand how firms engage in rhetorical history their social legacy external stakeholders, what call “outward-oriented legacy.” By carrying out a 12-months field study three Ita...

This article demonstrates how the combined approaches of informed pluralism and disciplined integration can help rebridge the distance between the seemingly disparate academic worlds of family science and family business. The authors establish the need for such a resynthesis by documenting trends within family enterprise research from 1985 to 2010. The analysis vividly illustrates not only the ...

this study was conducted with the objective of identifying the major determinants of loan repayment in small scale enterprises (sses) with particular reference to sses in one of kenya’s most dynamic informal business hub, kariobangi division in nairobi. in order to achieve this objective, primarily data were collected from 50 randomly selected respondents by using questionnaires. descriptive st...

In countries with a long history of entrepreneurship and market economy, significant research efforts have been devoted to family business succession. Such studies are rare in former communist countries, mainly because private enterprises were outlawed during the socialist economy era. Considering reports on the importance and complexity of succession issues, and taking into account the ageing ...

Integrating the family embeddedness perspective with research on commensality and meals, we develop a framework that explains why some families are more likely to fuel entrepreneurship than others. Inspired by diversity literature role of Chinese Confucian culture in shaping dynamics, explore how two demographic (i.e., age gender) knowledge-based education industry) sources within households pr...