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Management control systems and performance in small and medium family firms
Antonio Duréndez, Daniel Ruíz-Palomo, Domingo García-Pérez-de-Lema, Julio Diéguez-Soto
European Journal of Family Business. 2016;6:10-20
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Highlights

  • Family businesses use less management control systems than nonfamily firms.

  • The use of MCS has a positive influence on business performance.

  • Firm managers and practitioners should foster the development of MCS to improve firm performance and competitiveness.

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Organizational culture and family business: A configurational approach
Gregorio Sánchez Marín, Antonio José Carrasco Hernández, Ignacio Danvila del Valle, Miguel Ángel Sastre Castillo
European Journal of Family Business. 2016;6:99-107
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Highlights

  • Family involvement in the business influences the adoption of a clan culture orientation.

  • Family firm culture is internally group oriented, based on emotional and personalist values.

  • Non-family business is oriented towards market and hierarchy cultures.

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17394
SEW: Looking for a definition and controversial issues
M. José Martínez-Romero, Alfonso Andrés Rojo-Ramírez
European Journal of Family Business. 2016;6:1-9
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An approach to patronymic names as a resource for familiness and as a variable for family business identification
Fernando Olivares-Delgado, Alberto Pinillos-Laffón, María Teresa Benlloch-Osuna
European Journal of Family Business. 2016;6:32-45
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Corporate social responsibility in family SMEs: A comparative study
Pedro Juan Martín Castejón, Beatriz Aroca López
European Journal of Family Business. 2016;6:21-31
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Highlights

  • In recent years, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has attracted much interest in both the academic world and the professional.

  • The objective of this research is to determine whether there are differences in orientation towards CSR between family SMEs and non-familiar ones.

  • The results indicate that family SMEs are more socially responsible than no familiar ones.

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Composition of familiness: Perspectives of social capital and open systems
Myriam Cano-Rubio, Guadalupe Fuentes-Lombardo, María Jesús Hernández-Ortiz, Manuel Carlos Vallejo-Martos
European Journal of Family Business. 2016;6:75-85
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Highlights

  • Covers a gap in the literature regarding the composition of familiness.

  • Defines the variables found in familiness and so helps enable the measurement of familiness in all family firms.

  • Enables conclusions and comparisons to be made about strategic decisions in family firms.

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The impact of family business strategies on hotel room prices
Ismael P. Soler, Germán Gémar
European Journal of Family Business. 2016;6:54-61
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Highlights

  • Price is a key variable in research on profitability and brand management.

  • The impact of being a family-business hotel on hotel room rates was analysed.

  • A hedonic price model was used.

  • Being a family-business hotel has a significant negative impact on room price.

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Conditional mediation of competitive strategy and environment in international entrepreneurial orientation of family businesses
Felipe Hernández-Perlines, Esteban Mancebo-Lozano
European Journal of Family Business. 2016;6:86-98
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Impact of financial crisis and family control on earning management of Portuguese listed firms
Inês Lisboa
European Journal of Family Business. 2016;6:118-31
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Knowledge management, flexibility and firm performance: The effects of family involvement
Antonio J. Carrasco-Hernández, Daniel Jiménez-Jiménez
European Journal of Family Business. 2016;6:108-17
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Internal market orientation and work-family balance in family businesses
Jose Ruizalba, Anabela Soares, María Vallespín Arán, José Luis González Porras
European Journal of Family Business. 2016;6:46-53
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Highlights

  • Employees of half of the Andalusian family owned businesses analyzed still do not perceive a high level of WFB.

  • Micro firms are those that reveal more active implementation of WFB.

  • WFB has a positive impact on job satisfaction and employee's commitment in family firms in Andalusia.

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President interlocking, family firms and performance during turbulent times: Evidence from Latin America
Karen Watkins-Fassler, Virginia Fernández-Pérez, Lázaro Rodríguez-Ariza
European Journal of Family Business. 2016;6:63-74
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Highlights

  • President interlocking in LA firms is positively associated with performance.

  • The association between performance and interlocks depends on corporate governance.

  • This favorable relationship is mitigated where expropriation odds are higher.

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