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Representing Cultural Diversity Through Tourism: A Critical Analysis Of English Tourism Board Texts, William Feighery
Representing Cultural Diversity Through Tourism: A Critical Analysis Of English Tourism Board Texts, William Feighery
William Feighery
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The Professionalization Process: The Dennis Family Corporation Case, Justin Craig, Ken Moores
The Professionalization Process: The Dennis Family Corporation Case, Justin Craig, Ken Moores
Justin B. Craig
Bert and Dawn Dennis were faced with a decision that had to be made and they could not make it on their own. They called a family meeting. They asked their four adult off-spring to decide whether they would prefer them to sell the business that they had built over the past 25 years and divide the funds equally between them or whether the children would prefer to amalgamate their associated businesses with the parent company and take on the challenge of professionalizing this new entity. The four members of the second generation expressed unanimous desire to amalgamate and “make …
An Investigation And Behavioural Explanation Of Family Businesser Functioning, Justin B. Craig
An Investigation And Behavioural Explanation Of Family Businesser Functioning, Justin B. Craig
Justin B. Craig
This research investigated the causes of behavioural difficulties among family businessers in two studies. Study one adapted the evolutionary theory of the firm to the family business context in an empirical study that involved 370 family businessers from 46 families. The study found that: (1) stakeholder cohorts within the family (employed by the business versus not employed by the business; owners of stock versus non stock owners; related to founder versus not related; male versus female) were significantly divided on business direction and planning, the introduction of new routines to the business and various roles, habits, norms and codes that …