scholarly journals Governance: Role Of Boards In Women Owned Businesses

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Tony Bledsoe ◽  
Susan B. Wessels
Keyword(s):  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Women Business Owners ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
The University

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">According to Astrachan, et al.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>(2003), family businesses &ldquo;generate no less than 64 percent of USA gross domestic product, and &hellip; employ a whopping 62 percent of the nation&rsquo;s work force.&rdquo; While the economic impact is evident, the state of governance may not be so apparent. In light of this information, two questions bearing examination are: (1) Is governance a critical issue for family owned businesses; (2) If so, how may these firms address these questions? Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh developed and administered a survey to collect data about family business boards. A companion study, with its focus on women business owners, was conducted by Meredith College researchers. This paper compares and reports the results.</span></span></p>

scholarly journals The Reciprocal Involvement of Family Business Owners and Communities in Business Success

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 4048
Author(s):  
Jennifer Johnson Jorgensen ◽  
Diane Masuo ◽  
Linda Manikowske ◽  
Yoon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Business Success ◽  
Community Sustainability ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Business Outcomes ◽  
Rare Group ◽  
Over Time

It is believed that highly involved business owners and community members will yield benefits to ensure business and community sustainability over time. However, little research has delved into understanding the role of business owners’ involvement and the community’s involvement in business outcomes. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the reciprocal involvement of family business owners and the community. To investigate this phenomenon, this study utilized survey data from a rare group of business owners who currently operate long-standing businesses. Results indicate that more involved business owners perceived higher levels of business success. When seeking a profit, business owners also tended to be more involved in the community than owners not seeking a profit. However, family-owned businesses felt that the community did not contribute to their businesses and did not stay involved over time. Overall, business owners felt that they contributed more than the community provided in return. Recommendation is made to stress in entrepreneurship curricula the importance of reciprocal involvement between businesses and their communities and vice versa to promote business and community sustainability over time.

Book Reviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 809-818
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
The United States ◽  
Factor Endowments ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
European Colonization ◽  
The University ◽  
Relative Differences

Jeffrey G. Williamson of Harvard University and University of Wisconsin reviews “Economic Development in the Americas since 1500: Endowments and Institutions” by Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. The EconLit abstract of the reviewed work begins: Eleven papers explore differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin America and mainland North America, specifically the United States and Canada, and consider how relative differences in growth over time are related to differences in the institutions that developed in different economies. Papers discuss paths of development -- an overview; factor endowments and institutions; the role of institutions in shaping factor endowments; the evolution of suffrage institutions; the evolution of schooling – 1800–1925; inequality and the evolution of taxation; land and immigration policies; politics and banking systems; five hundred years of European colonization; institutional and noninstitutional explanations of economic development; and institutions in political and economic development. Engerman is John H. Munro Professor of Economics and Professor of History at the University of Rochester. The late Sokoloff was Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Bibliography; index.

The Expectation of Partial Retirement Among Family Business Owners

2003 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haejeong Kim ◽  
Sharon A. DeVaney
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Business Owner ◽  
Survey Of Consumer Finances ◽  
Hours Worked ◽  
Consumer Finances ◽  
Retirement Accounts ◽  
The Family ◽  
Partial Retirement

Decisions that the family business owner makes about retirement and succession are critical and could affect a large proportion of the work force. Compared to employees, family business owners may have more of an opportunity to retire partially, i.e., reduce the number of hours worked. The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics of family business owners who expect to retire partially. Data on 1,155 family business owners from the 1998 Survey of Consumer Finances reveals that family business owners with more education and more income, who work more hours per week, and who have tax-deferred retirement accounts expect to retire partially. There is a direct correlation between age and those choosing partial retirement, suggesting that many family business owners expect to retire partially. Married family business owners were less likely to expect to retire partially; instead, they would retire fully. The equity in the business, type of ownership, and involvement of other family members did not affect the expectation of partial retirement.

scholarly journals A Norwegian pillar in Svalbard: the development of the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS)

Polar Record ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole A. Misund ◽  
Dag W. Aksnes ◽  
Hanne H. Christiansen ◽  
Thor B. Arlov
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
Science And Education ◽  
Student Graduation ◽  
Future Potential ◽  
The University

ABSTRACTThe University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) is a unique institution with a history that is closely related to Norwegian policy regarding Svalbard, and to clever development of a highly specialised Arctic university institution by all the Norwegian universities. In practical terms, Norwegian sovereignty on the archipelago as confirmed by the Treaty of Svalbard of 1920 and regulated by the Svalbard Law of 1925, is maintained by the presence of Norwegian civil authorities and communities. Today, the “capital” Longyearbyen with its 2100 inhabitants is a modern hub for industry, education, research, logistics and tourism. Founded in 1993, UNIS has become a main contributor to this community, generating some 20% of the total economic activity. A prime motivation for establishing UNIS was to provide a supplement and alternative to the unprofitable, heavily subsidized coal mining industry, by using the location for research based education. In 2015, the mining company Store Norske Spitsbergen Kullkompani (SNSK) met with deep crisis again and significantly downscaled its coal production and work force. Thus, UNIS may play an even more important role as a cornerstone of the local community in the future. This paper discusses the establishment and development of UNIS, its organisation, capacity, and academic production in terms of student graduation and its scientific output, just as its future potential for growth is evaluated. Finally, we discuss the increasingly important role of science and education in Norwegian Svalbard policy.

scholarly journals Role of university entrepreneurship centre in developing small and family business

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-534
Author(s):  
Adesoga Adefulu ◽  
Van Scheers Louise
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Business Practice ◽  
University Entrepreneurship ◽  
Recovery Programs ◽  
The University

The paper examines University Entrepreneurship Centre’s role in developing small and family business. Global economic recession effect led majorly to unemployment and poverty.To revamp the economy, recovery programs were embarked upon to empower the citizenry.University Entrepreneurship Centre collaborated to empower “aspirants,” “established” and “stucked” entrepreneurs gain skill and best business practice strategy revealing university entrepreneurship Centre’s role.The methodology is qualitative and exploratory, textual in design and divided into sections.The paper identified university entrepreneurship Centre’s roles as advisory, innovation, training and synergizing campus entrepreneurship activities and concluded that the economy will geometrically grow when knowledge trapped in the university are shared with business entrepreneurs By implication,university would have effectively carried out community engagements as core mandate to mankind’s benefits.

On the Formation of Tropopause Folds and Constituent Gradient Enhancement Near Westerly Jets

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew H. Hitchman ◽  
Shellie M. Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Water Vapor ◽  
Convective Transport ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Fundamental Cause ◽  
Differential Advection ◽  
The University ◽  
Gradient Enhancement ◽  
Jet Streak ◽  
Westerly Jets

AbstractThe role of differential advection in creating tropopause folds and strong constituent gradients near midlatitude westerly jets is investigated using the University of Wisconsin Non-hydrostatic Modeling System (UWNMS). Dynamical structures are compared with aircraft observations through a fold and subpolar jet (SPJ) during RF04 of the Stratosphere-Troposphere Analyses of Regional Transport (START08) campaign. The observed distribution of water vapor and ozone during RF04 provides evidence of rapid transport in the SPJ, enhancing constituent gradients above relative to below the intrusion. The creation of a tropopause fold by quasi-isentropic differential advection on the upstream side of the trough is described. This fold was created by a southward jet streak in the SPJ, where upper tropospheric air displaced the tropopause eastward in the 6-10 km layer, thereby overlying stratospheric air in the 3-6 km layer. The subsequent superposition of the subtropical and subpolar jets is also shown to result from quasi-isentropic differential advection.The occurrence of low values of ozone, water vapor, and potential vorticity on the equatorward side of the SPJ can be explained by convective transport of low-ozone air from the boundary layer, dehydration in the updraft, and detrainment of inertially-unstable air in the outflow layer. An example of rapid juxtaposition with stratospheric air in the jet core is shown for RF01. The net effect of upstream convective events is suggested as a fundamental cause of the strong constituent gradients observed in midlatitude jets. Idealized diagrams illustrate the role of differential advection in creating tropopause folds and constituent gradient enhancement.

The New Wisconsin Idea

2018 ◽  
pp. 56-76
Author(s):  
Romain D. Huret
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Soil P ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
The University

This chapter describes the role of the University of Wisconsin and one of its economists Robert J. Lampman in the intellectual construction of a science of poverty. Lampman was sceptical about the famous Kuznets’ Curve - this Cold War diagram that argued about the near disappearance of poverty on the American soil.

Recovering the Midwestern Ethos of Journalism Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-32
Author(s):  
Jane Yeahin Pyo ◽  
Nikki Usher
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
The University ◽  
Journalism Research ◽  
Back To The Land

This chapter is a reminder that practice and theory have gone hand in hand since the beginning of professional journalism. However, this history and this partnership have been lost somewhat, particularly when it comes to PhD research. By calling back to the land-grant mission at the universities home to the first schools of journalism in the United States (the University of Missouri, the University of Illinois, the University of Wisconsin), the chapter recalls how the focus on skills and on understanding mass communication was aligned with the mission of journalism education. The chapter examines the founding of the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois and its PhD program that focused on applied journalism and mass communication research, explaining the role of legendary journalism scholar James Carey in recentering (and decentering) the tension between practice and research.

The Role of Cariporide in Protecting Saphenous Vein among Different Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Genotypes

Cardiology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 145 (7) ◽  
pp. 456-466
Author(s):  
Yi Lin ◽  
Chentao Luo ◽  
Yunqing Shi ◽  
Runhua Ma ◽  
Qi Xia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Saphenous Vein ◽  
Artery Bypass ◽  
Graft Material ◽  
Cardiac Events ◽  
Mutant Genotype ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Adverse Cardiac Events ◽  
The University ◽  
Related Proteins

Objective: We aimed to study the effect of cariporide (CP) on protecting the saphenous vein and the role of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Background: The saphenous vein is the main graft material used in CABG. Recent studies suggested that CP is effective in protecting against various cardiovascular diseases. Methods: Segments of a surgically removed saphenous vein were used to examine the vascular response to CP. The ALDH2 genotype and expression of related proteins were assessed by Western blotting and immunohistochemistry. Results: Among the conditions tested, the University of Wisconsin solution with CP (4°C, 5 min) treatment showed the best protective effect on the saphenous vein. The incidence of major adverse cardiac events was higher in the ALDH2-GA (heterozygous mutant) genotype population after CABG. Conclusion: CP plays a role in reducing the production of reactive oxygen species and apoptosis by ALDH2-mediated mitochondrial function improvement. The ALDH2 mutant genotype might be one of the risk factors for coronary atherosclerotic heart disease.

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