This article examines the extent to which Austrian family enterprises (FEs) have implemented a Bal-anced Scorecard (BSC) as an instrument for multi-dimensional performance measurement (PM) and on which contingency factors (company size, ownership, degree of family involvement, management...

Management accounting deals with the subject family enterprises rather little in spite of its high economical relevance. This paper questions, weather general objectives of family enterprises differ from those of non-family enterprises. Based on the hypothesis that family enterprises aim at...

Small businesses are important contributors to the economic vitality. Nevertheless failure continues to be an important issue affecting small firms especially within their first years (Carter and van Auken 2006, Mayr et al. 2016, Thornhill and Amit 2003). However, it does not necessarily mean...

Management accounting deals with the subject family enterprises rather little in spite of its high economical relevance. This paper questions, weather general objectives of family enterprises differ from those of non-family enterprises. Based on the hypothesis that family enterprises aim at...

Research on the Chief Financial Officer's (CFO) role has increased in the last few years, but has so far mainly focused on large firms and neglected the CFO's role in smaller firms. Therefore, in this paper, we study whether the CFO's role in medium-sized firms differs from the CFO's role in...