Candlelight Bags : A Case Study of Family Business Management

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 71-79
Author(s):  
Ankit Katrodia ◽  
Kiresha Naicker
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Business Management

Comparing family and nonfamily candidates for promotion: manager selection at Acme Lumber

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 422-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Perry ◽  
Nancy Bereman
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Agency Theory ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Manager Selection ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
The Right

Synopsis Ned Piper needs to improve the performance of Acme Lumber’s Broken Arrow store. There are two candidates for the store manager’s position, Larry Frazier and Chip Farmer. Larry has worked for Acme for 35 years in a variety of positions and is related to the Johnson family who has owned and managed Acme for three generations. Chip has worked for Acme for 19 years and has successfully helped to turn around another store. Chip is not related to the Johnsons. Ned is feeling pressure from the business and family to make the right decision. Which candidate should he select to become a manager? Research methodology The authors used a case study methodology. Relevant courses and levels Human resources, selection, staffing, and family business management. Theoretical bases Socioemotional wealth perspective, and agency theory.

scholarly journals SUCCESSION PROCESS IN THE FAMILY BUSINESS: A CASE STUDY OF PEKALONGANESE BATIK CLOTH ENTERPRISES, INDONESIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-148
Author(s):  
Kusumantoro ◽  
Agus Suman ◽  
Sri Umi Mintarti Widjaja ◽  
Hari Wahyono
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Entrepreneurial Learning ◽  
Teaching Business ◽  
Succession Process ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
Business Succession

Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to explain the role of parents in teaching business management to their children from an early age for the success of family business succession. Methodology: It was a qualitative study and data were collected by observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation. The focus of this study was the succession process of the PekalonganBatik business analyzed from the entrepreneurial learning perspective. Interview questions focused on entrepreneurial learning and how parents teaching business management. Interviews conducted into 6 Informants. Each interview took between 35 – 45 minutes. Main Finding: The results of this study showed that parents usually introduced business management to their children from an early age. They made their children involved in the business to know about the planning, producing and marketing of Batik cloths. The indicators of giving entrepreneurial learning to children are involving them in business activities; they learned to manage the business by doing those activities at their parents’business. Implications/Applications: This study can be useful for another batik enterprises center to guidelines for succession. Novelty/Originality: This research was to explore the parents to involve their children from an early age to help manage businesses in preparation for business succession.

scholarly journals The Largest European Blackberry Producer: A Research Case Study on Entrepreneurship and Family Business

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Ajay A Chauhan ◽  
Alfonso Vargas-Sánchez ◽  
María Moral-Moral
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Major Project ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Current Reality

<p>The present paper is based on a field research on the evolution of a saga of family entrepreneurs in Spain, with four generations involved. From the modest beginnings of a canned tomato factory, longer than a century ago, the case explains its transformation up to the current reality of being recognized as the largest blackberry European producer, named ‘Agrícola El Bosque’. Through the personal experience of its main characters, the case displays the very different stages through which this entrepreneurial family has traveled, especially the keys to the successful development of ‘Agrícola El Bosque’, including the last major project that has promoted, based on a process of cooperation with other berries producers in the area. This commercial alliance, branded as 'Plus Berries', leads us to reflect on the future of the growth model followed until now by this family business. On the foundations of this case, some lessons can be extracted and shed light on particular aspects of the scientific literature on family business management, as well as on how entrepreneurial spirit can be fed and flourish at the heat of the development and consolidation of a cluster of companies in an industry.</p>

Accounting without accounting

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 426-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fábio Frezatti ◽  
David B. Carter ◽  
Marcelo F.G. Barroso
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Accounting Information System ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Perspective

Purpose – An effective management accounting information system (MAIS), as well as the accounting discourse related to it, can support, facilitate, enable, and constrain diverse business discourses. This paper aims to examine the discursive and organisational effects of an organisation accounting upon absent accounting artefacts, i.e. accounting without accounting. Situated within the discursive literature, this paper examines the construction of competing articulations of the organisation by focusing on what accounting does or does not do within an organisation. In particular, the paper acknowledges the fundamental importance of the accounting discourse in supporting, facilitating, enabling, and constraining competing organisational discourses, as it illustrates how the absence of accounting centralises power within the organisation. Design/methodology/approach – From a rhetorical, discursive perspective, the authors develop an in-depth qualitative case study in a manufacturing organisation where MAIS has been abandoned for approximately two years. Interpretive research approaches, from a post-structural perspective, provided the base for the structure of the research. The authors studied how other organisational discourses (such as entrepreneurship and growth), which are traditionally constructed with reference to accounting and other artefacts, continued to be produced and sustained. The non-use and non-availability of management accounting information created a vacuum that needed to be filled. The lack of discursive counterpoints and counter-evidence provided by MAIS created a vacuum of information, allowing powerful, proxy discourses to prevail in the organisation, increasing risks to business management. Findings – The absence of MAIS to support an accounting discourse requires that contingent discourses “fill in the discursive gap”. Despite appearances, they are no substitute for the accounting discourse. Thus, over time, the entrepreneurial, growth and partners' discourses lose credibility, without the corresponding use of management accounting information and its associated discourse. Originality/value – There are at least two main contributions from the case study and the findings presented in this paper: first, they provide a new perspective for studying MAIS, as a specific organisational discourse among other discourses that shape people relationship within the organisation as an examination of accounting without accounting. Second, this discussion reinforces the relevance of accounting discourse for other organisational discourses, supporting, facilitating, enabling, and constraining them, by demonstrating the effects of its absence.

Succession and Governance Across Generations: A Comparative Study of the United States and Italy

1999 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Alberto Zanzi ◽  
Colette Dumas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Business Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Italian Family ◽  
Management Succession ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The Impact

This comparative study of American and Italian family-owned firms focuses on two key aspects of family business management: succession and governance. This study also explored the impact of generation on these variables.

Professional Management in Family Businesses: Toward an Extended Understanding

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Hall ◽  
Mattias Nordqvist
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Business Research ◽  
Dominant Meaning ◽  
Case Research ◽  
Professional Management ◽  
Family Membership

Our purpose is to challenge the dominant meaning of professional management in family business research and to suggest an extended understanding of the concept. Based on a review of selected literature on professional management and with insights from cultural theory and symbolic interactionism, we draw on interpretive case research to argue that professional family business management rests on two competencies, formal and cultural, of which only the former is explicitly recognized in current family business literature. We elaborate on the meanings and implications of cultural competence and argue that without it a CEO of a family business is likely to work less effectively, no matter how good the formal qualifications and irrespective of family membership.

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