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		<title><![CDATA[Succession Planning For Family Businesses]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=955879]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[There can be many reasons behind the failure of a family business to make it from one generation to the next, including a lack of viability of the business itself or the reluctance of offspring to join the company. However, the most common reason is the failure of current management...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Should You Join the Family Business?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/harvard/?p=390]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The decision to join a family business can be difficult because once you're in, you're in for the long haul. You can leave IBM with two-weeks notice. But mixing blood and money means you are committing big time to Johnson's Distributors or Jones and Sons Auto Repair.   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:08:30 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Customer Relationship Management: A Comparative Analysis of Family and Nonfamily Business Practices]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=174488]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been reported that family businesses perceive excellent customer service as critical to the future of their businesses. However, little research into the Customer Relationship Management CRM practices of family businesses has been performed. This paper examines CRM implementation among 82 family and 370 non family firms. Family and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Family Business and Exit Strategies: An Empirical Research]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=134429]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The literature on family business has generally devoted great effort to studying problems arising from succession processes, actors involved, their effects on firm performance and the ways of managing processes. However, empirical evidence shows that, in most countries, family businesses are not likely to survive after the third generation. The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Exploring the Fundamental and Effects of Entrepreneurship Within Family Business]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=135520]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Family businesses are the lifeblood of American enterprise and since the days of our founding fathers, have excelled at identifying needs in the marketplace. By developing skills and building businesses to meet those needs, generations of families have passed along their skills and knowledge to their children, reaffirming the work...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Women as Family Business Successors]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=135522]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Women today are challenging the stereotype and assumption that men are the best and most qualified candidates for taking over the family business. This paper is a compilation of examples from various articles outlining the contributions of many women to their family businesses. Specific characteristics and qualifications are identified as...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Conceptual Capability and Family Business Survival: An Application of Jaque's Stratified Systems Theory in Family Business]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=135523]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Historically, only a small percentage of family businesses survive the transition from founder to successor generations. The present article tests the hypothesis that business performance following succession is in part attributable to the successor's current and future conceptual capacity at the time of the succession. Using a procedure derived from...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Conflict Management Strategies and Family and Business Outcomes in Family Businesses]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=134223]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper asserts that family businesses that obtain relatively positive business and family outcomes use collaborative and compromising conflict management strategies, those that obtain positive family outcomes use accommodative strategies, and those that obtain relatively negative business and family outcomes use competitive and avoiding strategies. It presents the analyses of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Family Business Boards: Relationship to Planning and Organizational Outcomes]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=134405]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This empirical research is focused on the extent board characteristics, impact planning and performance of boards of directors in family businesses. Of the 926 surveys sent to family businesses in a mid-western state, 241 were returned with usable data. Organizations were divided into three groups based on board characteristics, and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Multi-Level Family Business Choice Model: A Dichotomous Approach]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=356285]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper develops a model to facilitate owners of family businesses in their decision-making. The model allows for priorities to be placed on family issues and business issues concurrently, in a dichotomous approach. The research is a complement to existing literature on family business interaction models and could provide a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Internationalization Via Strategic Alliances in Family Businesses]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=137291]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This report indicates three important pre-requisites for family businesses that are seriously considering internationalization as an aid to growth: they need to have a market-leading product, adequate financial resources, and a suitable organizational structure. part from these preliminary conditions, the example of the family businesses studied here demonstrates that success...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Competitiveness and Evolution of Family Businesses: The Role of Family and Business Orientation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=134220]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of this study is to systematically examine the advantages and disadvantages of different types of family businesses operating in Europe. For this, it makes a distinction between a firm's family and business orientation. The two dimensions are used to develop a space of family businesses that include 'Houses...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sobey Family Business Flourishes]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=67980]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Sooner or later, all family dynasties find themselves on a precipice- the one where they're perched between keeping absolute control and letting go. This article discusses a case about Sobey family and their business. The idea of the business, is partly "to create an I-belong feeling" among the 30-to-40 closest...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary on the Special Issue: The Emergence of a Field]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=134229]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Family business is a relatively new field. The words ''family business'' occasionally appeared in the literature before the 1980s, but rarely. Family business is clearly an important entrepreneurship topic and with family businesses accounting for some 57% of employment as well as a similar percentage of the United States' GDP,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary On: The Transacting Cognitions of Non-Family Employees in the Family Businesses Setting]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=134409]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This article discusses the origins of the academic study of family business. The academic study of the family business field began in earnest with a look at the endemic conflicts and tensions of family business. From that point forward, very little research in this field has occurred that has explored...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Family Businesses Are Bright Spot in American Economy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=68224]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Article is about the family owned business, shows robust growth in American economy. It presents the facts deduced by the survey that a mean revenues from family- owned firms have grown to $36.5 million, up more than 50%. While most business and economic news over the last year has been...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Family Business: The Perils and Positives of Work and Family]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=67214]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Doing business with family members has never been a neutral topic. Family businesses are a time-honored tradition. In contrast, many companies have formal policies against doing business with people you have outside ties with, just because of the many possible complications. Article provides a discussion of how to accentuate the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Multi-Generational Family Firms Transfer Management Control Successfully]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=67478]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Article concludes that the powerful and committed and often curmudgeonly and irascible individuals who dominate family businesses come in all ages, spring from all ethnic groups and races, and include both genders. But their ethnic, cultural and gender differences are less important than their common desire to have both healthy...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Making Peace between the Generations in Family Businesses]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=67479]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.genusresources.com/site/content/publications/articles/davidow_narva_peace.asp	There are more than 200,000 American companies with annual revenues of at least $5 million or more. The vast majority is family controlled or family owned. Almost all of these families persevere without benefit of counsel on inter-generational family business issues. Instead of assuming that only an outside professional can...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Financing Family Business: Alternatives to Selling Out or Going Public]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=67481]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Family businesses, whether private or public, constitute a major segment of the American economic system. A conceptual framework, from a financial practitioner's perspective, is presented for simplifying the conflicting objectives of the business and its shareholders with respect to the fundamental issues of control, liquidity, and capital. The investment objectives...]]></description>
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