The Role of Governance Structure in the Context of Crisis Management An Empirical Analysis on a German Sample of Non-Family and Family Businesses /

• Main Author: Faghfouri, Pedram. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Gabler, 2013.
• Subjects: Economics.; Industrial management.; Economics/Management Science.; Economics/Management Science, general.; Management/Business for Professionals.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-00596-2

Both practitioners and scholars agree that organizations that are ready to cope with crisis should be better able to manage it than organizations which are not prepared. As, due to their company characteristics, family businesses are exposed to additional causes of crisis beyond the usual causes all...

Table of Contents:

• Turnaround Management <U+0013> State of the Art
• Crisis management in family businesses
• Empirical studies: Methods and sample
• How family members in the TMT and the existence of supervisory boards affect EWSs in family businesses
• Differences in the crisis readiness of family and non-family businesses <U+0013> does a supervisory board matter?
• Summary.