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Australia’S Dennis Family Corporation, Justin Craig, Ken Moores
Australia’S Dennis Family Corporation, Justin Craig, Ken Moores
Justin B. Craig
This paper details how the Australia Dennis family has been able to professionalize their family business while still retaining their family values and realizing the founders’ vision. We detail how Bert and Dawn Dennis and their four adult offspring decided to amalgamate their associated businesses with the parent company and take on the challenge of professionalizing this new entity. We highlight that, although the four siblings had learnt business, they had to now learn their family business. In addition, the CEO, Grant Dennis, had to learn to lead the business. As well, the Dennis family had to learn to give …
Epilogue - Family Business: A Rich Research Repository, Justin Craig, Ken Moores, Carole Howorth, Panikkos Poutziouris
Epilogue - Family Business: A Rich Research Repository, Justin Craig, Ken Moores, Carole Howorth, Panikkos Poutziouris
Justin B. Craig
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As evidenced in our opening paper Family Business Research at a Tipping Point Threshold (Craig, Moores, Horworth & Poutzouris 2009), family business as a research pursuit has undergone significant growth during the last decade (Heck, Hoy, Poutziouris & Steier 2008; Sharma, Hoy, Astrachan & Koiranen 2007). The issues that have faced family business as a research destination are common among all emerging fields (Moores 2009b). Diverse methods are appropriate when the questions being asked are more common than the answers being provided. Therefore, a range of qualitative and quantitative methods are involved according to the nature of questions. Although …
An Investigation Of Hindsight Bias In Nascent Venture Activity, Gavin Cassar, Justin Craig
An Investigation Of Hindsight Bias In Nascent Venture Activity, Gavin Cassar, Justin Craig
Justin B. Craig
We posit that individuals who are actively engaged in activities to develop their own venture will exhibit hindsight bias when recalling their startup experiences. We observe that those who fail to develop their startup activity into an operating business demonstrate substantial hindsight bias concerning the probability of venture formation. In particular, the recalled probability of success, reported after their decision to quit, is lower than the probability of success solicited during the nascent process. We argue that the systematic distortion of the past has important implications for individuals involved in the venturing process. Specifically, we suggest that these individuals are …
Family Business Research At A Tipping Point Threshold, Justin Craig, Ken Moores, Carole Howorth, Panikkos Poutziouris
Family Business Research At A Tipping Point Threshold, Justin Craig, Ken Moores, Carole Howorth, Panikkos Poutziouris
Justin B. Craig
In this paper, we report the frequency that family business research has been published by year and by discipline in top-tier journals as listed in the Journal Quality List (JQL) (Harzing 2008) to argue that family business research has reached a tipping point threshold.development.