The Growth Behavior of Family Firms Theoretical and Empirical Elaborations [Paperback]

Annika Geyer aims to advance the currentunderstanding of variations in family businesses' growth performance and toexplain their potential origins. She focuses on the respective impact of theset of relevant background factors (stemming from top executives' individualcharacteristics as well as the given organizational and social environment) onthe firms growth performance and the underlying processes through which thisimpact is transmitted. The insights of this work constitute an essential steptowards settling the debate on how the family actually contributes to the familyfirm's performance and hold some important implications for practitioners.

Variations in Strategic Choices Concerning Firm Growth: A ConceptualFramework and its Application to the Context of Family Businesses.- The Influence of Executives' Membership in the FB Owner-Family on FirmGrowth.- Family Decision Makers in FBs, their Growth Intentions and Actual Firm Growth:The Influence of Different Levels of Family and Personal Involvement in the Firm.

Dr. Annika Geyer wrote her dissertationunder the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andreas Hack and Prof. Dr. Arist vonSchlippe at the Witten Institute for Family Business (WIFU) at Witten/HerdeckeUniversity.

Annika Geyer aims to advance the currentunderstanding of variations in family businesses' growth performance and toexplain their potential origins. She focuses on the respective impact of theset of relevant background factors (stemming from top executives' individualcharacteristics as well as the given organizational and social environment) onthe firms growth performance and the underlying processes through which thisimpact is transmitted. The insights of this work constitute an essential steptowards settling the debate on how the family actually contributes to the familyfirm's performance and hold some important implications for practitioners.

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