posted on 2017-07-26, 09:26authored byLouise ScholesLouise Scholes, Nick Wilson, Mike Wright, Hannah Noke, Ali Altanar
This report investigates family businesses in the UK and focuses on their incidence,
industrial and geographical context and their governance and performance relative to non-family
businesses. The sample includes near population UK data for the period 2007 to 2009
of privately held incorporated firms (excluding listed/quoted firms) and analyses around 3
million firm-year observations. The report compares and contrasts family businesses with
non-family businesses with reference to governance and performance during the current
recession. Family businesses that are structured with 'family trusts/settlements' are considered
as an important sub-sample of family businesses in the report. The analysis highlights
important differences between family and non-family firms across a number of dimensions of
governance and firm performance.
Funding
Institute for Family Business.
History
School
Loughborough University London
Published in
UK FAMILY BUSINESSES: INDUSTRIAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT, GOVERNANCE AND PERFORMANCE
Citation
SCHOLES, L. ... et al., 2010. UK family businesses: industrial and geographical context, governance and performance. London: IFB Research Foundation.
Publisher
IFB Research Foundation
Version
VoR (Version of Record)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/