1. Family and non-family business resilience in an economic downturn
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Jacques Jaussaud, Bruno Amann, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Centre de recherche et d'études en gestion (CREG), and Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA)
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Family business ,Financial economics ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Financial structure ,Context (language use) ,Sample (statistics) ,Conventional wisdom ,Recession ,Matched pair ,Economics ,[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration ,Psychological resilience ,Business and International Management ,Marketing ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,media_common - Abstract
As widely documented in academic literature, family businesses perform better and enjoy a sounder financial structure than non-family businesses, a trend that applies to Japan as well, which is the context of this paper. Therefore, conventional wisdom suggests that family businesses should recover better or more easily from an economic downturn and persist in their stronger performance. This study tests this hypothesis, especially in reference to the current global economic crisis, by drawing lessons from the Asian crisis of 1997, for which relevant data are available. The study pertains specifically to the case of Japanese family and non-family companies. The empirical investigation uses a matched pair methodology, which allows for strong controls of size and industry variables. The sample consists of 98 carefully selected pairs (one family and one non-family) of firms that are of the same size and from the same industry. According to the results, family businesses achieve stronger resilience both during...
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- 2012
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