Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1344/jesb2024.9.1.32893
Willian Klinger Mosquera, María Piedad López Vergara, Diógenes Lagos Cortés
This exploratory research seeks to identify the role of family culture in the transgenerational transfer in Colombian family businesses. The sample was selected for convenience from a list of companies provided by the Chocó Chamber of Commerce (Colombia). To be included in the sample, the companies had to meet the following criteria: (a) Be over 25 years; (b) be in operation; (c) have a turnover of more than 265,000 dollars (1,000 million Colombian pesos) in the previous year; and (d) have an intention of succession to the next generation. A semi-structured interview was applied to members of five family businesses in the department of Chocó. It was evidenced that the type of family culture influences the transgenerational transfer process through the preparation for succession, values, decision-making process, and level of commitment.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1344/jesb2024.9.1.43709
Claudio Müller, Robert V. Randolph
The implementation of environmentally sustainable initiatives within organizations is a shared research topic across both sustainability and family business research. Using a case study approach, this paper provides an in-depth exploration of the presence, role, and strategic nature of environmentally sustainable processes within the Chilean wine industry. Our interview process resulted in 21 interviews between July and November of 2014. Our findings suggest that the recognized tendency of family firms to both engage in and benefit from sustainability practices may not only be owed to their desire to preserve family socio-emotional wealth, but also the unique ability to better incorporate, apply, and effectively benefit from such investments. These findings extend previous work in this area by recognizing additional processes necessary for the development of proactive sustainability practices which are not considered using the motivation-based schema common in extant work. Our findings are analyzed and discussed as they relate to both family business and sustainability research and serve as a bridge between these two related research domains.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1344/jesb2024.9.1.43712
Claudio Müller, Maria de los Angeles Lucero-Bringas
Family businesses in Latin America often have deep roots and play a significant role in the region's economy. The heritage and legacy of small family businesses in Latin America can be understood through several key aspects. One is the historical context; many small family businesses in Latin America have a long history that spans several generations. Another is influenced by the region's rich and diverse cultural heritage. Cultural values, such as a strong sense of family, community, and tradition, can shape the decision-making processes within these businesses, as well as the adaptation to Economic Challenges. At the same time, Latin America has faced economic challenges and fluctuations over the years. Small Family businesses in the region have often demonstrated resilience and adaptability in navigating economic uncertainties. In this Special Issue about Heritage and Legacy in Small Family Firms in Latin America, we have assembled a compilation of articles by researchers who interact closely with business families throughout Latin America. Building on a collaborative research framework involving authors from several countries, this effort accounts for the increasing number of family business studies in Latin America. The authors explore diverse issues and processes within family businesses in the region.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1344/jesb2024.9.1.40345
José Luis Esparza Aguilar, Argentina Soto Maciel
Corporate governance (CG) is a system by which firms are directed and controlled. Through its mechanisms, it ensures optimal levels of efficiency, exploits opportunities, and prevents conflicts of interest between directors, shareholders, and stakeholders. The studies do show a positive relationship between CG and performance, but they are conducted in developed countries with stable legal and economic environments. Thus, CG contributes to the value creation (VC) of the firms. But in family firms, the concentration of power resulting from the overlapping of its subsystems (family, business, and ownership) influences the functioning of CG, and probably, VC. Setting goals, monitoring results, or controlling performance can be some of its forms. But we do not know the influence in emerging countries.The aim of the study is to empirically analyze the financial contribution of CG mechanisms to the VC of listed family firms in a Latin American economy. The results show the importance of the size of the board of directors, the participation of independent directors, and the duality of the chief executive officer. All the latter are important, considering the high representation of the family firms, their traditional concentration of power, the level of legal or regulatory weakness level, the uncertainty and instability of market conditions. The study is relevant due to the lack of evidence in emerging markets.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1344/jesb2024.9.1.32900
M. C. Quintá Goy, Darío Milesi
Family businesses fulfil a fundamental role in the economy as they constitute a vast majority of companies in different countries and sectors and make an important contribution to employment, production and generating value. Nevertheless, they occupy a small space in the business and corporate literature, which generally studies the behaviour of companies without considering this feature. This is even more so in the literature on innovation, although family businesses also make a relevant contribution to the economy through productive, organisational and commercial innovations. This article intends to fill this gap in the Argentine case, analysing the innovative behaviour of these firms and, fundamentally, their appropriability strategies. To do so, empirical evidence is used from the most recent Argentine innovation survey (ENDEI II) which has data on 3,944 companies, of which 2,954 are family businesses. To analyse the link between the family nature of the businesses, their innovation activities and their appropriability strategies, the concept of familiness is resorted to, which alludes to those idiosyncratic elements that arise from the interaction of the family members and their participation in the business, imbuing it with its distinctive character.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1344/jesb2023.8.2.36704
Laxmipriya Das Laxmipriya Das, S. Mohanty
Organizational justice appears to be a key component that leads to attaining organizational goals and, as a result, increases organizational performance. Employees who feel fairness in today’s highly competitive workplace are more inclined to contribute more to their organization. Employees who feel their organization performs fairly are more likely to display citizenship behavior. The current study sought to ascertain the level of faculty members’ justice perception and extra-role behavior in higher education institutions. To investigate the impact of organizational justice on organizational citizenship behavior among faculty members of higher educational institutions, various research questions are developed: first, how much influence does faculty members’ Organizational Justice (OJ) have on their Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) towards the institution? Second are there any important connections between the OJ and OCB constructs? Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used in the study. Cronbach’s alpha, descriptive analysis and multiple regression analysis were applied in the study. According to the findings, OJ has a significant influence on the dimensions of OCB. It represents that the employees should exhibit selflessness and always thinks for the welfare of others, act in positive ways, never complain, and participate in the organization's political process.
{"title":"Impact of Organizational Justice on Organizational Citizenship Behavior: empirical evidence from Higher Educational Institutions","authors":"Laxmipriya Das Laxmipriya Das, S. Mohanty","doi":"10.1344/jesb2023.8.2.36704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/jesb2023.8.2.36704","url":null,"abstract":"Organizational justice appears to be a key component that leads to attaining organizational goals and, as a result, increases organizational performance. Employees who feel fairness in today’s highly competitive workplace are more inclined to contribute more to their organization. Employees who feel their organization performs fairly are more likely to display citizenship behavior. The current study sought to ascertain the level of faculty members’ justice perception and extra-role behavior in higher education institutions. To investigate the impact of organizational justice on organizational citizenship behavior among faculty members of higher educational institutions, various research questions are developed: first, how much influence does faculty members’ Organizational Justice (OJ) have on their Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) towards the institution? Second are there any important connections between the OJ and OCB constructs? Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used in the study. Cronbach’s alpha, descriptive analysis and multiple regression analysis were applied in the study. According to the findings, OJ has a significant influence on the dimensions of OCB. It represents that the employees should exhibit selflessness and always thinks for the welfare of others, act in positive ways, never complain, and participate in the organization's political process.","PeriodicalId":36112,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45235960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1344/jesb2023.8.2.39830
R. Panda, Dibya Nandan Mishra
The globalization of agriculture has opened new opportunities, challenges and stiffer competition in India. This paper explores and evaluates various macro and micro factors influencing the marketing channel choices made by the vegetable farmers in Odisha. Responses were collected from 323 vegetable farmers and 110 commission agents, and 192 retailers across five districts of Odisha. Data were analyzed using SPSS to confirm reliability, validity and data reduction. AMOS was used to design the structural equation model. Access to market knowledge has a positive sign for both organized and unorganized market choices, which is consistent with the hypothesis. Hence, the value suggests that increasing market knowledge can increase market participation. The improvement in practices and expertise in grading also shows an increase in the involvement of both organized and unorganized markets. Given these marketing challenges, this study suggests improving emerging farmers' participation in the export markets.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1344/jesb2023.8.2.33989
Nahashon Nzioka Nthenya
This article examines the development of strategic alliances in the airline industry through the participation of Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (hereafter KLM) in a joint venture with Kenya Airways (hereafter KQ). Based on the literature on knowledge transfer in international business and organization studies, the study focuses on the evolution of cooperation between both partners over time, from capital seeking to joint marketing, legitimacy, knowledge seeking, and revenue and cost sharing. In particular, it demonstrates how the features of the two firms and their boundaries affect inter-organizational knowledge transfer.
{"title":"Knowledge Transfer and the Development of Airline business in Africa: Kenya Airways, 1977-2017","authors":"Nahashon Nzioka Nthenya","doi":"10.1344/jesb2023.8.2.33989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1344/jesb2023.8.2.33989","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the development of strategic alliances in the airline industry through the participation of Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (hereafter KLM) in a joint venture with Kenya Airways (hereafter KQ). Based on the literature on knowledge transfer in international business and organization studies, the study focuses on the evolution of cooperation between both partners over time, from capital seeking to joint marketing, legitimacy, knowledge seeking, and revenue and cost sharing. In particular, it demonstrates how the features of the two firms and their boundaries affect inter-organizational knowledge transfer.","PeriodicalId":36112,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48343274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1344/jesb2023.8.2.38278
Qing Xia, P. Donzé
This paper studies the technological innovation and new marketing strategies that enabled firms from traditional industries to pursue their existence in a disruptive environment. As a case study, we follow an approach from classical business history and industry studies, focusing on the Japanese tea industry to analyse how it has innovated to survive in a fast-changing environment over the last five decades. Based on various resources (official data from Tea Industry Association, patents and trademark data, reports, interviews, etc.), this paper emphasises three marketing strategies that supported its survival: product development based on technological innovation (transformation of the true nature of green tea from a commodity to a branded good), brand management (repositioning of some specific teas in the growing luxury market) and internationalisation (expansion in foreign markets through exports). This research also emphasises the major role played by large corporations to support industrial transformation.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1344/jesb2023.8.2.41837
Ángel Calvo
This research seeks to explore the driving forces behind the diverse pathways of telecommunications and, in particular, the rationale for international alliances in the context of globalisation and the extension of the value chain induced by technological change. It attempts to answer two interrelated questions: from China's side, why Telefónica and from this operator's side, why China? China was looking for a reliable technology partner for its weak market segments and a bridge to Latin America. Telefónica ambitioned to expand its mobile customer base in a country with high growth potential (NYT) while reducing through economies of scale equipment supply costs in an oligopolistic market. The research adopts a case study methodology and focuses on the service operators China Unicom and Telefónica de España in the years after the dotcom crash and before the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic. The investigation is based on sources from the companies involved and relevant documents from specialised institutions. The study finds that the need for cooperation in the knowledge and capital-intensive services and the coincidence in strategies led to the frame of international alliances of companies.
本研究旨在探索电信多样化途径背后的驱动力，特别是在全球化背景下国际联盟的基本原理以及技术变革引发的价值链延伸。它试图回答两个相互关联的问题:从中国的角度来看，为什么是Telefónica;从运营商的角度来看，为什么是中国?中国正在为其薄弱的细分市场寻找可靠的技术合作伙伴和通往拉丁美洲的桥梁。Telefónica的目标是在具有高增长潜力的国家(NYT)扩大移动客户群，同时通过规模经济在寡头垄断市场上降低设备供应成本。本研究采用案例研究方法，重点关注互联网泡沫破裂后和新冠疫情到来前的中国联通和Telefónica de España两家服务运营商。调查是根据有关公司的资料和专门机构的相关文件进行的。研究发现，知识密集型和资本密集型服务业的合作需求以及战略的契合导致了企业国际联盟的形成。
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