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Yet the private sector is not the comfortable oligarchy it might seem, for family firms compete head on and often live and die by the sword.

Chinese students now attending business school are often the second generation of these family firms, she says.

Then German family firms, who love to be control freaks, have to shed control, open up and be more international in their outlook.

Mr Mayer believes that somehow the British have lost the secret of keeping family firms going as such for more than two generations.

Although several family firms have had a terrible crisis, in one industry they have shone.

The paper is a preliminary attempt to explore the underlying determinants of family firms.

A failure to develop the founder's business, together with disputes over dividing up the spoils, usually does in most family firms.

One way in which family-firms have differentiated themselves during the crisis is by refusing to slash their workforces.

Agency theory has already been utilized to explore the behavior of family firms that do not have aligned ownership and management.

Family firms, as a special type of enterprise organization, exist in many countries commonly.

Culture management can help family firms solve some management problem, help staffs improve the enthusiasm, help family firms grow bigger.

The division of profits made by family firms between those in their first, second and third or older generations has stayed pretty constant.

In Portugal, says Peter Villax, president of the Portuguese Family Business Association, large family firms have eschewed lay-offs.

Since the reform and open-up, family firms have been developing fast under the support of the government.

German family firms are outdoing their Chinese rivals. Can they keep it up?

This paper will focus on the difference of firm performance between listed family firms and listed non-family companies.

So it is very necessary to research on the motive factors and growth mechanism for the networked growth of family firms.

Family firms dominate the private sector in much of Asia and Latin America.

One has to delve into small partnerships and family firms to find executive power being shared at the top.

We are the earliest time, a shop in Taipei, is selling the cooker, at that time, we just a family firms.

But several of Germany's biggest family firms have not proved so conservative of late.

But many family firms are evolving into widely held corporations.

What operating philosophy should family firms build up?

So it is essential for family firms to improve their contract governance structure.

German family firms are outdoing their Chinese rivals.

This applies not only to large, public companies but to family firms, subsidiary and associated companies, and not-for-profit organisations.

Nor has the profit share of family firms overall, of whatever vintage, changed much.

According to the research of foreign scholar, family firms have their own characteristics in the process of information disclosure.

Having a century or more of experience is supposedly a big advantage for family firms in difficult times.

From the perspective of multidimensional trust, the paper researches the influence of trust on the sustainable growth in China family firms.

Many family firms have sales and service outlets and even factories abroad.

There are roughly 4, 000 of them (precise numbers are hard to come by) working everywhere from giant multinationals to tiny family firms.

Will India's family firms fade of their own accord, too?

It's true of the old family firms that .

Should the public opinion sigh for those family firms which can not be "wealthy over three generations" ?

"We have lost fewer jobs in Italy compared to other European countries because of family firms, " she says.

Second, the development pattern of Chinese family firms in the growing stage is studied to find out their major problems.

Study of Psychological Contract between Family Firms and Professional Managers

Ethic administration and standard administration: Studies of the dual mechanism of administration within family firms

Financial Supporting Network of Family Firms'in Expanding Period: Existing Problems and Countermeasures

On the Choices and Determinants of the Succession of the Right of Control in Modern Chinese Family Firms

The Exploration of Internal Control Fuzzy Synthesis Appraisal in Zhejiang Province Family Firms

Investor Protection and Corporate Equity Ownership Structure: A Model of Succession in Family Firms

Human Resource Management of Chinese Family Firms: Status and Countermeasures

Analyzing the Financing Obstacles and Protecting Mechanisms Of Family Firms in the Starting Period

Research on Sustainability of Chinese Family Firms and Corporate Governance

The Competency and Personality of the Senior Managers in Chinese Family Firms

Research into Problems of the Professional Management of China's Family Firms

The Relational Governance in Family Firms: An Exploratory Study

The Growth of Family Firms and the Transition of Their Governance Structure

Analyses of Multiple Character and Conflicts of Family-firms Goals

a comment on family firms ' malpractice and reform ' s orientation

Family firms adopt an unusual approach to remain competitive

An Analysis on the Principal-agent Relationship in Family Firms

changes of the family firms and china ' s economy transformation

What Do We Know about Chinas Family Firms: Evidence from Survey

Primary discussion on the Governance of Family Firms

A Study on the Evolution and Management Patterns of the Family Firms

Exploration of Management in Family Firms

Trust, Hidden Motivation, and the Tri-stage Model of Family Firms

Forging leadership in family firms

Some Problems about the Management of Qingdao's Family Firms

Summary of the Research on Trust and the Family Firms

Innovation of Incentive Mechanism of Family Firms in China

Succession Problems for Family Firms in China

Research on Organization Evolution of Family Firms in China Based on External Market