Qualitative research is frequently utilized in family business research. Reporting on qualitative research findings typically involves summarizing themes or approaches, or tabulating the frequency of mentions for topics, phrases or words. Correspondence analysis is a method that is seldom used...

The Commitment–Trust theory (Morgan & Hunt, 1994) and the F-PEC scale of family influence (Astrachan, Klein, & Smyrnios, 2002) were utilized in a 6-construct model that examines family influence in retailer–vendor strategic partnerships in the United States. Partial least squares structural...

The aftermath of the 1990 Middle East war and the region′s subsequent exposure to Western technologies and lifestyles has contributed to an accelerated opening up of Arabic culture to Western ideas. Often relegated to a secondary role in the Arab culture, changing market conditions have helped...

Are family-owned companies perceived more positively by consumers than their non-family analogues, as has been proposed by family business scholars? A multiplicity of anecdotal clues as well as theory and some empirical evidence support the proposition that family firms enjoy a consumer-based...