Researchers widely argue that the most significant difference between family controlled and non‐family business concerns the way in which executive succession occurs, and more specifically, unique aspects of the process of intergenerational family business transfer. The importance of this...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address both the measurement of affordability and variations in affordability between local housing market areas (HMAs). Design/methodology/approach – The practical data issues that arise from measuring local affordability are reviewed by reference...

Significant changes have taken place in the nature, organisation and management of research on the UK SME sector over the past decade. This is the first in a short series of papers documenting and analysing those changes. The data set addressed is the published proceedings of the ‘UKEMRA’...

Significant changes have taken place in the nature, organisation and management of research on the UK SME sector over the past decade. This is the second in a short series of papers documenting and analysing those changes. As in part one, the data set addressed is the published proceedings of...

US institutional investors include asset classes in their portfolio for a number of reasons, including wanting to conform with industry norms, participate in a significant component of the investable universe, earn favorable returns, diversify the portfolio and provide a natural hedge against...

Starting with a complete lack of modern specified office property in 1990, the skylines of Warsaw, Prague and Budapest have undergone rapid transformations since the countries emerged from centrally-planned, command economic systems. In roughly 13 years time, real estate developers and builders...

Investors look at several factors when deciding whether or not to add an asset class to a mixed portfolio. This document outlines arguments as applied to global real estate securities and provides comments relative to the implications for mixed asset portfolio construction.