Journal of Family Business Management: Volume 7 Issue 2

Women’s management practices and performance in rural female-owned family businesses

Whitney Peake, Maria I. Marshall

Prior research indicates that family businesses have fewer management control practices in place and are more likely to have non-economic goals for their firm. Further…

Formal human resource practices in family firms

Tensie Steijvers, Nadine Lybaert, Julie Dekker

The importance of formal human resource (HR) practices is widely recognized in management literature, but under-researched in the small business and family firm domain. Previous…

The transition challenge in family and business: a case study of KL Bricks

Manoj Joshi

The case aims around transition and threats to survival in a brick kiln family business. Second, it stimulates an understanding on the need toward collective decision making by…

Mergers and acquisitions in family businesses: current literature and future insights

Maija Worek

The purpose of this paper is to examine the current state of literature concerning mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in family businesses and to highlight areas for future research…

Finance managers in family firms: an upper-echelons view

Martin R.W. Hiebl

Informed by upper echelons theory, the purpose of this paper is to synthesize the current knowledge on finance managers in family firms and to suggest valuable future research…

Family firm identity and capital structure decisions

Felix K. Thiele, Martin Wendt

The purpose of this paper is to grasp the effect of familiness on capital structure decisions in family firms, as family firm identity may be an important source of competitive…