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View article: What makes a successor? Values, personality, and succession intentions in family businesses
What makes a successor? Values, personality, and succession intentions in family businesses Open
Purpose This study explores how individual values and personality traits shape succession intentions in family businesses. By integrating socioemotional wealth (SEW), self-determination theory (SDT) and Schwartz’s value theory, it examines…
View article: Risk perception of SMEs: strategic risks, family-related risks, external risks
Risk perception of SMEs: strategic risks, family-related risks, external risks Open
While risk perception is essential in understanding risk-taking behavior, the risk perception of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) remains widely unexplored. Analyzing the current business situation of about 1000 German companies,…
View article: Coping with uncertainty, ambiguity and risk – a crucial future competence in entrepreneurship education
Coping with uncertainty, ambiguity and risk – a crucial future competence in entrepreneurship education Open
Coping with uncertainty, ambiguity and risk is a crucial future competence that needs to be addressed in entrepreneurship education, as the business landscape is increasingly unpredictable. The Erasmus+ project EICAA (Entrepreneurial and I…
View article: Risk perception in small- and medium-sized hospitality family enterprises
Risk perception in small- and medium-sized hospitality family enterprises Open
Purpose The vulnerability of the tourism industry to an array of risks, encompassing family-related, small- and medium-sized enterprise-specific, strategic, tourism-specific and external factors, highlights the landscape within which small…
View article: Austria – Stanglwirt and Its Approach Towards Female Leadership and Role Models
Austria – Stanglwirt and Its Approach Towards Female Leadership and Role Models Open
The Stanglwirt is an award winning 5-star green spa hotel including a wellness resort and its farm.It is located in the Austrian Alps near Kitzb ühl.The hotel combines uniquely tradition and innovation and is well-known for hosting legenda…
View article: Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Gender Equality
Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Gender Equality Open
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.. Generating insights into the role of family businesses in eliminating violence and ensuring equal opportunities and participation for women in business an…
View article: Social SME Entrepreneurship: A Conceptual Model of Innovativeness in Environmentally Sustainable Social Enterprises
Social SME Entrepreneurship: A Conceptual Model of Innovativeness in Environmentally Sustainable Social Enterprises Open
The awareness of the severity of global sustainability challenges has reinforced appeals to harness and leverage alternative business forms and ecologically sustainable innovations to grant future generations the capability to meet their o…
View article: Antecedents of labor shortage in the rural hospitality industry: a comparative study of employees and employers
Antecedents of labor shortage in the rural hospitality industry: a comparative study of employees and employers Open
Purpose Although the role of human capital in the hospitality sector is critical, the industry faces challenges in attracting workers with a poor industry image frequently mentioned regarding labor shortages. This research paper attempts t…
View article: Online Support for Education in Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Competences: A Proposal for an Assessment Tool and Support for Tailor-Made Training
Online Support for Education in Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Competences: A Proposal for an Assessment Tool and Support for Tailor-Made Training Open
Higher education institutions across Europe are called to offer entrepreneurship education. Despite the rising interest and the increased offerings in the last decades, entrepreneurship education is yet not as mature as other disciplines, …
View article: Employer attractiveness of family businesses in the it-industry: the effect of personality traits and the moderating role of ownership communication
Employer attractiveness of family businesses in the it-industry: the effect of personality traits and the moderating role of ownership communication Open
Purpose - Employing a qualified workforce is a crucial topic for organization-al success. Research on employer branding in family businesses has not come to a clear conclusion of which family business characteristics might be attractive fo…
View article: Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Quality Education
Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Quality Education Open
Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Quality Education examines family businesses in Australia, USA, Austria and Algeria, analysing how SDG4 translates into family business and can ensure inclusive, equitable quality educatio…
View article: Prelims
Prelims Open
Citation (2022), "Prelims", Birdthistle, N. and Hales, R. (Ed.) Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Quality Education (Family Businesses on a Mission), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. i-xix. https://doi.org/10.1108/…
View article: The relationship between employer image and employee commitment in family-run hospitality firms
The relationship between employer image and employee commitment in family-run hospitality firms Open
Purpose Among all forms of commitment, affective commitment has been shown to be the most desirable for enterprises. However, research on commitment among employees in family-run businesses in the hospitality industry is scant. To address …
View article: Innovation capability and culture: How time orientation shapes owner–managers’ perceptions Innovation capability and culture: How time orientation shapes owner–managers’ perceptions
Innovation capability and culture: How time orientation shapes owner–managers’ perceptions Innovation capability and culture: How time orientation shapes owner–managers’ perceptions Open
This study offers a cross-cultural perspective to better understand how time orientation shapes tourism small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) innovation capability. We synthesise the extant literature and determine SME owner–managers’ inter…
View article: Intergenerational communication barriers and pitfalls of business families in transition—a qualitative action research approach
Intergenerational communication barriers and pitfalls of business families in transition—a qualitative action research approach Open
Purpose This paper aims to explore the pertinent issues, barriers and pitfalls of intergenerational communication in business families during their leadership succession period. Design/methodology/approach Building on relational leadership…
View article: Enterprise risk management in small and medium family enterprises: the role of family involvement and CEO tenure
Enterprise risk management in small and medium family enterprises: the role of family involvement and CEO tenure Open
Taking the right amount of risk is essential for successful business. As a response to the importance of risk management, the effectiveness and implementation of enterprise risk management (ERM) systems are recently discussed in literature…
View article: Tourism Family-Business Owners’ Risk Perception: Its Impact on Destination Development
Tourism Family-Business Owners’ Risk Perception: Its Impact on Destination Development Open
In developing and sustaining tourism, destination management involves the coordination of various stakeholders, and theory suggests that securing sustainability, including stakeholder interests in decision-making and strategic planning is …
View article: Family entrepreneurial resilience – an intergenerational learning approach
Family entrepreneurial resilience – an intergenerational learning approach Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore leadership succession in families in business. Although there is a vast amount of research on leadership succession, no attempt has been made to understand this phenomenon by using an interge…
View article: Qualitative Interpretive Mobile Ethnography
Qualitative Interpretive Mobile Ethnography Open
A growing number of studies use mobile ethnography and mobile devices to collect data, yet studies reveal a lack of coherent definition and inconsistencies in validity criteria. We draw on relevant literature from tourism, health and retai…
View article: Qualitative interpretive mobile ethnography
Qualitative interpretive mobile ethnography Open
A growing number of studies use mobile ethnography and mobile devices to collect data, yet studies reveal a lack of coherent definition and inconsistencies in validity criteria. We draw on relevant literature from tourism, health and retai…
View article: A power perspective on knowledge transfer in internal succession of small family businesses
A power perspective on knowledge transfer in internal succession of small family businesses Open
The aim of this paper is to apply a power perspective to knowledge transfer in internal succession processes of small family businesses. We argue that knowledge is a source of power. Distilling existing literature on small family businesse…
View article: A Power Perspective on Knowledge Transfer in Internal Succession of Small Family Businesses
A Power Perspective on Knowledge Transfer in Internal Succession of Small Family Businesses Open
The aim of this paper is to apply a power perspective to knowledge transfer in internal succession processes of small family businesses. We argue that knowledge is a source of power. Distilling existing literature on small family businesse…
View article: Online Students’ Expectations Differ: The advantage of assessing students’ expectations in online education
Online Students’ Expectations Differ: The advantage of assessing students’ expectations in online education Open
Students’ feedback on online education has become of major importance for many higher education institutions. While researchers already identified students’ success factors and analyzed students’ satisfaction in online study programs and c…
View article: Index
Index Open
5Rs Reflective Thinking Framework 99-105 Abbey, J. 46 ability, domains of 337 Aboriginal peoples 456; see also Indigenous peoples Aboriginal Taskforce 444 academic misconduct 34 academic performance impact of part-time work 219-20 social n…
View article: A systematic review of quality of student experience in higher education
A systematic review of quality of student experience in higher education Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify and synthesize major streams of research on quality of student experience in higher education, to present an agenda for future research. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents a syst…
View article: Innovation in Tourism Firms
Innovation in Tourism Firms Open
The aim of this research was to identify the degree to which internal and external variables influence innovativeness. With this objective we address a significant gap in tourism research as, although the importance of innovation is widely…