“For better or for worse” – the role of family ownership in the resilience of rural hospitality firms

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Brudvik Engeset
Keyword(s):  
Family Ownership ◽  
Hospitality Firms

scholarly journals Limiting role of resource dependence: an examination of director interlocks, board meetings and family ownership

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vidya Sukumara Panicker ◽  
Rajesh Srinivas Upadhyayula
Keyword(s):  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Resource Dependence ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Resource Provisioning ◽  
Independent Directors ◽  
Family Ownership ◽  
Independent Director ◽  
Content Type

PurposeThis paper attempts to examine the activity and involvement of board of directors in internationalization activities of firms in emerging markets, by evaluating the resource provisioning roles of interlocks provided by board of directors, and the frequency of board meetings. We demonstrate that the effectiveness of board involvement is contingent upon the levels of family ownership in firms since family ownership could impact the firm’s ability to utilize the presence of different types of board members.Design/methodology/approachThe authors test our hypotheses on a sample of listed Indian companies, extracted from the Prowess database published by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), a database of the financial performance of Indian companies. On a panel of 3,133 firm years of 605 unique Indian firms with foreign investments, over a time period of 2006–2017, the authors apply different estimation techniques.FindingsThe results demonstrate that both board meeting frequency and director interlocks are instrumental in supporting internationalization activities in emerging market firms. However, family ownership moderates the role of insider and independent interlocks on internationalization investments in different ways; the authors find that interlocks provided by independent directors support internationalization activities in family firms, whereas those provided by insider directors do not. Further, the study also finds that board meetings are less effective in internationalization of family firms.Practical implicationsThe authors conclude that family firms aiming at international diversification require to develop more connected and networked independent directors to enable internationalization in firms. While independent director interlocks enhance the international investments, it is also useful to know that board meetings are ineffective in utilizing the resources in family firms. This points to the possibility that family firms should device mechanisms to integrate family meetings with board meetings so that they can utilize the within-family processes to aid in their internationalization decisions.Originality/valueThe study contributes to resource dependence theory by understanding its limiting role in family firms. Theoretically, it helps delineate the limiting resource provision role of the insider directors vis-à-vis independent directors. The authors argue that the resource provision role of insider director interlocks does not effectively help in internationalization in comparison to independent director interlocks in family-dominated firms. Consequently, the study shows the limiting role of resource provision and utilization by family-owned firms in comparison to non-family-owned firms.

The Role of Foreign, Family Ownership and Audit Committee in Evaluating the Company as a Going Concern: Evidence from Jordan

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bilal Nayef Zureigat ◽  
Faudziah Hanim Fadzil ◽  
Syed Soffian Syed Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Foreign Ownership ◽  
Family Ownership ◽  
Ols Regression ◽  
Going Concern ◽  
Relationship Of

This study discusses the association between foreign, family ownership and audit committee on the going concern evaluation among Jordanian listed companies for the years 2011 and 2012. The data reveal through using OLS regression that there is a negative and not significant relationship between foreign ownership and going concern evaluation, while a negative significant relationship with family ownership. In addition, this study also finds a positive and significant relationship of audit committee with the going concern evaluation.The results alsoshow that most of the Jordanian companies have violated some of Corporate Governance requirements. For instance, approximately 43% of Jordanian firms did not have an audit committee. This study shows valuable insights to the understanding of factors that may affect going concern evaluation among Jordanian firms. Therefore, the findings of this study provide important conclusions for investors, regulators and policymakers and academics to shed the light on the mechanisms that ensure the continuity of companies.

Family ownership and cooperative R&D: the moderating effect of political ties

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Dong ◽  
Xiao Wang ◽  
Jiawen Chen
Keyword(s):  
Family Firms ◽  
Family Ownership ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Political Ties ◽  
Wealth Concentration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Ability And Willingness

Purpose This study aims to investigate the impact of family ownership on cooperative research and development (R&D). Drawing on the ability and willingness paradox framework in family business research, the authors suggest that family ownership influences cooperative R&D via two opposing mechanisms: power concentration and wealth concentration. It also deepens the current understanding of the boundary conditions of informal institutions for the impact of family ownership on cooperative R&D by investigating the moderating role of political ties. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyze a panel of 610 Chinese manufacturing family firms and 2,127 firm-year observations from 2009 to 2017. Fixed effects regression analysis is used to test the hypotheses, with the two-stage Heckman model to address sample selection bias. Findings The research findings indicate that family ownership has an inverted U-shaped relationship with cooperative R&D and political ties moderate the relationship in such a way that the inverted U-shaped relationship will be steeper in firms with more political ties than in firms with fewer political ties. Practical implications Family ownership influences firms’ cooperative R&D through the positive effect of power concentration and the negative effect of wealth concentration. Family owners should, therefore, take advantage of concentrated power, for instance, by adapting quickly and committing sufficient resources to cooperative R&D opportunities, while controlling path-dependent relationship development caused by concentrated family wealth. The effect of political ties on the relationship between family ownership and cooperative R&D is found to be a double-edged sword. Originality/value This study extends the ability and willingness paradox framework and provides novel insights into cooperative R&D in family businesses by integrating power concentration and wealth concentration associated with family ownership. Moreover, this study provides a contingency perspective and introduces the moderating role of political ties in shaping cooperative R&D in family firms.

The Role of Family Ownership in Survival and Bouncing Back

2020 ◽  
pp. 261-282
Author(s):  
María Iborra ◽  
Vicente Safón ◽  
Consuelo Dolz
Keyword(s):  
Family Firms ◽  
Good News ◽  
Family Ownership ◽  
Stressful Event ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Bankruptcy Risk ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Litmus Test ◽  
The Relationship

The latest global economic and financial crisis has been a litmus test for companies, especially for SMEs. These companies have had to demonstrate their ability to be resilient, surviving first and then recovering. This chapter studies the role of family ownership in the survival and recovery of SMEs during a stressful event. From a perspective based on the complementarity or substitutability of goals that family firms pursue, the authors propose that family ownership has a positive effect on survival but a negative effect on recovery. Furthermore, they propose that the risk of bankruptcy before a crisis moderates the relationship between family ownership and survival. Hypotheses have been tested with a dataset of 3,133 Spanish manufacturing MEs finding evidence for the positive role of family ownership in survival and for the moderating effect of previous bankruptcy risk. The empirical data confirms good news for family-owned firms.

scholarly journals The Role of Political Connections on Family Firms’ Performance: Evidence from Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iman Harymawan ◽  
Mohammad Nasih ◽  
Muhammad Madyan ◽  
Diarany Sucahyati
Keyword(s):  
Family Firms ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Political Connections ◽  
Family Ownership ◽  
Ols Regression ◽  
Ordinary Least Square ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship of firms with family ownership and their performance in Indonesia and further examine on how political connections affect this relationship. This study used 933 samples from 413 companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) in the period between 2014 and 2016. Using ordinary least square (OLS) regression, the results shows that firms without family ownership (non-family firms) have better performance than firms with family ownership (family firms) in Indonesia. Furthermore, the findings also show that the performance of family firms significantly improve when the firms are affiliated with political connections. Our findings imply that establishing political connections in family firms will increase the performance of the firms.

scholarly journals Does the presence of independent directors reduce the practices of earnings management? The moderating role of family ownership concentration

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 638-654
Author(s):  
Deaa Al-Deen Al-Sraheen ◽  
Khaldoon Ahmad Al Daoud
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Ownership Concentration ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Family Ownership ◽  
Board Independence ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

While often criticized, the independence of directors remains a crucial criterion for evaluating the effectiveness of the monitoring role of boards. This study examines the relationship between board independence and earnings management, paying attention to moderation role of family ownership concentration on this relationship using a sample of services companies listed on Amman Stock Exchange ASE. This study documented a significant and negative association between board independence and earnings management. In addition, the moderating role of family ownership concentration on this relationship was also negative. Thus, the board’s monitoring function was inefficient due to the concentration of ownership. These results were obtained through using multiple and sequential regression analysis for the research data from 2013 to 2016. This study provides new ideas for future research such as examining the impacts of the migration of capitals and investors from neighbouring countries such as Syria and Iraq.

scholarly journals The moderating role of family ownership on the relationship between ownership concentration and comply-or-explain disclosure: An analysis on Italian listed companies

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-42
Author(s):  
Federico Alvino ◽  
Luigi Lepore ◽  
Sabrina Pisano ◽  
Gabriella D'Amore
Keyword(s):  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Ownership Concentration ◽  
Family Ownership ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Comply Or Explain

The aim of the paper is to investigate the relationship between ownership concentration and the degree of comply-or-explain disclosure regarding the composition and functioning of boards of directors, also considering the moderating role played by family ownership. The study is conducted on a sample of 227 Italian non-financial listed companies. The results reveal a negative relationship between ownership concentration and the degree of comply-or-explain disclosure. Moreover, this relationship is stronger in companies having a family firm as a dominant shareholder. The paper contributes to previous studies on the degree of adherence to corporate governance code by investigating both the comply aspect and the explanations provided in cases of non-compliance. Moreover, the study contributes to previous research on the relationship between ownership structure and disclosure by considering the moderating role played by shareholder identity.

scholarly journals PENGARUH KEPEMILIKAN DAN KEPEMIMPINAN KELUARGA SERTA EFEKTIFITAS PENGAWASAN DEKOM TERHADAP KUALITAS AUDIT

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-223
Author(s):  
Vera Diyanty ◽  
Eliza Fatima ◽  
Akhmad Syahroza
Keyword(s):  
Audit Quality ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Family Ownership ◽  
Chief Financial Officer ◽  
Ultimate Ownership ◽  
Big 4 ◽  
Family Leadership ◽  
Ultimate Owners

This study aims to investigate the effect of family ownership, family leadership, and the monitoring role of the Board of Commissioners on the audit quality. This study uses a sample of non-financial companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) from 2010 to 2013. Family ownership is measured through the ultimate ownership of the company. To determine whether the company's CEO is the founder of the company, family relationship data is used on all of the company's ultimate owners. The monitoring role of the Board of Commissioners is calculated through the Asean Corporate Governance Scorecard index. Data of auditor is obtained from Center for Supervision of Financial Service (P2PK). The results showed that family ownership either through direct or indirect mechanisms tend to choose Big 4 KAP than non Big 4. While Chief Financial Officer (CFOs) from family and corporate founders tend to choose Big 4 in auditing the company. This is done to maintain the company's reputation. The results also show that the effective monitoring of the Board of Commisionners (BOC) tends to choose Big 4 auditors compared to non Big 4.

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