Journal of Family Business Management: Volume 5 Issue 2

Best practice myths and trusted advisers

Ken McCracken

The purpose of this paper is to consider, from a practitioner’s perspective, two phrases that are often used in the family enterprise field; “best practice” and “trusted adviser”…

Conflict management and resolution in family-owned businesses: A practitioner focused review

Keanon Alderson

The purpose of this paper is to review the literature concerning the negative effects of conflict among family businesses and to make practitioner focussed recommendations for the…

Social identity and family business: exploring family social capital

Torsten Schmidts, Deborah Shepherd

The purpose of this paper is to use social identity theory to explore factors that contribute to the development of family social capital. Effects are investigated both for the…

Creating space for the business family: Networks, social capital & family businesses in rural development

Claire Seaman

The purpose of this paper is to consider one of the major, under-researched themes in rural studies – the business family. Acting as an economic bedrock and entrepreneurial…

Family firms, firm characteristics, and corporate social performance: A study of public firms in Japan

Michikazu Aoi, Shigeru Asaba, Keiichi Kubota, Hitoshi Takehara

The purpose of this paper is to explore corporate social performance attained by listed family and non-family firms in Japan. They are measured by the composite CSP index and five…

Family protocols as governance tools: Understanding why and how family protocols are important in family firms

Isabel C. Botero, Gonzalo Gomez Betancourt, Jose Bernardo Betancourt Ramirez, Maria Piedad Lopez Vergara

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the family protocol as a governance policy tool that can help ameliorate intra-family conflict and enhance the probabilities of…

The influence of family relationships in the succession: A factorial analysis of Mexican enterprises

Argentina Soto Maciel, Maria Isabel de la Garza Ramos, José Luis Esparza Aguilar, Juan Manuel San Martín Reyna

– The purpose of this paper is to assess the factors identified in the model of influence of family relationships in a process of succession.

Inertia as inhibiting competitiveness in Philippine family businesses

Andrea Santiago

The failure to innovate has been recognized as one of the prime causes of business failure. In addition to this, the purpose of this paper is to explore whether it is the failure…

Rethinking family business education

Gerald F. Burch, John H. Batchelor, Jana J. Burch, Nathan A. Heller

Family businesses consist of a family system, a business system, and an ownership system. Current undergraduate business education only prepares family business students with…

Family businesses: fertile environments for conflict

Steffen Großmann, Arist Von Schlippe

The purpose of this paper is to present an innovative study with a twofold focus: on highly escalated family business (FB) conflicts and on the interactions between conflicts and…

Myths & Mortals: Family Business Leadership and Succession Planning

Mike Braun

The VUCA Company

Murali Aiyer