In Western countries, the ideal of a stable nuclear family is becoming a feature of the past. Instead, families comprising couples living together with their children have become increasingly complex units, as have the multitude of factors impacting on individuals and their relationships....

Family business owners play multiple, interdependent,and often stress-inducing roles.The aim of this study is to test a causalmodel of stress-based conflict and family cohesion to family role performanceacross American and Australian family and non-family businessowners.There are a number of...

To provide a better operational definition of a family business, a scale is proposed to assess the extent and quality of family influence via the measurement of three major dimensions-- power, experience, and culture.Past research dilemmas regarding the definition of family business are...