Long-term Orientation of Family Firms An Investigation of R&D Investments, Downsizing Practices, and Executive Pay /
Recently, firms have been criticized for focusing too strongly on the short term and for neglecting investments in assets and capabilities required for long-term success, such as investments in R&D or in employee training. Family firms are considered to be different. They are commonly assumed to...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Wiesbaden :
Gabler,
2009.
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
| Περίληψη: | Recently, firms have been criticized for focusing too strongly on the short term and for neglecting investments in assets and capabilities required for long-term success, such as investments in R&D or in employee training. Family firms are considered to be different. They are commonly assumed to be more long-term oriented than comparable non-family firms. Joern Block analyzes this phenomenon in more detail and investigates whether and under which conditions family firms pursue more long-term oriented strategies than other firms. To this end, he compares R&D activities, downsizing practices and executive compensation of family firms with those of non-family firms. He also develops a theoretical model of how to pay a non-family manager who works in a family firm. |
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| Φυσική περιγραφή: | XXI, 250 p. 23 illus. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9783834984128 |
