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Performance of Family Firms: A Literature Review and Guidance for Future Research

Performance of Family Firms: A Literature Review and Guidance for Future Research

Year:    2008

Author:    Astrachan, Joseph H, Zellweger, Thomas

ZfKE – Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship, Vol. 56 (2008), Iss. 1-2 : pp. 155–177

Abstract

This special issue ends with a comprehensive review article by Zellweger and Astrachan focused on understanding what we know about the ways in which family influence affects firm performance. Their literature review is organized along the dimensions of power, experience, and culture, through which a family can exert influence on a firm (Astrachan, Klein, Smyrnios 2002; Klein, Astrachan, Smyrnios 2005). André Hoffmann's commentary shares how the Hoffmann family has exercised its influence on the world's third largest pharmaceutical company, Roche Pharmaceuticals, for over a century. A combination of family involvement in ownership and governance of the firm has enabled the Hoffmann family to support the “Roche way of doing business”.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    German

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.3790/zfke.56.1_2.1c

ZfKE – Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship, Vol. 56 (2008), Iss. 1-2 : pp. 155–177

Published online:    2008-06

AMS Subject Headings:    Duncker & Humblot

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    22

Author Details

Astrachan, Joseph H

Zellweger, Thomas

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