Owner-Manager Attitudes to Family and Business Issues: A 16 Country Study
- 1 December 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
- Vol. 26 (2) , 63-76
- https://doi.org/10.1177/104225870102600204
Abstract
This paper reports the results of a 16-country study into the attitudes of owner-managers to both business and family decisions. Three clusters of attitudes emerged—those who wished to involve their family, those who wished to strike a balance, and those who wished to exclude the family. The paper concludes that there is a set of attitudes towards the family and the business that consistently combine to divide owner-managers. This research highlights the need to examine this perspective and to explore further how it may vary across countries.Keywords
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