Family Management, Family Ownership, and Downsizing: Evidence from S&P 500 Firms:

By Jörn H. Block. 2008

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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How to Pay Nonfamily Managers in Large Family Firms: A Principal—Agent Model (2011, unknown): “Block (2010), for example, shows that family management moderates the relationship between firm profitability and the likelihood of downsizing: Poor profitability is less likely to lead to downsizing with family managers than with nonfamily managers. This finding can be interpreted as a sign that fa”
Capital structure decisions in family firms: empirical evidence from a bank-based economy (2011, unknown): “Block (2008) or Schmid et al. (2008). 4 An alternative framework to explain corporate decision making in family businesses is stewardship theory (Davis et al.”
Roots to Grow: Family Firms and Local Embeddedness in Rural and Urban Contexts (2018, background): “…for knowledge exchange (Falk & Kilpatrick, 2000; Summers, 1986), family firms have an important advantage over nonfamily firms in this regard because of their informal and trust-based relationships and their strong local roots in the region (Astrachan, 1988; Block, 2010; Fitzgerald et al., 2010).”
Image and reputation of family firms: a systematic literature review of the state of research (2018, background): “…et al. (2009); Uhlaner et al. (2004); Xu’nan (2011); Zang (1999); Zellweger et al. (2012) Act in a socially responsible way 19 Berrone et al. (2010); Block (2010); Block and Wagner (2014); Byrom and Lehman (2009); Cruz et al. (2014); De la Cruz Déniz Déniz and Cabrera Suárez (2005); Du…”
Technological Innovation Inputs, Outputs, and Performance (2016, background): “, 2013), making a distinction between family ownership and family management (Block, 2010), or analyzing how socioemotional wealth evolves over generations (Berrone et al.”
Are Family Firms Good Employers (2017, background): “Second, our data lend o ly limited support to the assertion that family firms exhibit lower dismissal rates than nonfamily firms (Block, 2010; Sraer & Thesmar, 2007; van Essen, Strike, Carney, & Sapp, 2015), and in cases where they differ, the effect sizes are small.”
Psychological Ownership in Small Family-Owned Businesses: Leadership Style and Nonfamily-Employees’ Work Attitudes and Behaviors (2011, background): “For instance, family ownership has been found to foster a long-term orientation (Le Breton-Miller & Miller, 2006) and make layoffs less likely than in nonfamily firms (Block, 2010), reinforcing a stronger reciprocal employee–organization attachment.”
Exogenous shocks and the adaptive capacity of family firms: exploring behavioral changes and digital technologies in the COVID‐19 pandemic (2021, background): “…family firms not only focus on economic results but also pursue noneconomic goals (Gómez- Mejía et al., 2007; Berrone et al., 2012), implying that family firms are under particularly high levels of pressure after an exogenous shock such as the COVID- 19 pandemic (Block, 2010; Chirico et al., 2019).”
Does Family Involvement in Management Reduce the Risk of Business Failure? The Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation (2016, background): “Previous studies have analyzed the effects of family management separately from those of ownership or other sorts of family involvement (e.g., Block, 2010; Sciascia & Mazzola, 2008).”