Most businesses we see today are family owned businesses and they have been noted to account for the largest percentage of the businesses in many nations (Kuratko and Richard, 2004). Looking at past studies, it has been asserted that nearly 92% of the businesses in the United States are all controlled by one family or the other (Kuratko and Hodgetts, 2004; Lam, 2009). Davis and Harveston (1998) suggested that family businesses are the most dominant form of business in the United State and they represent
1.0 Introduction This study highlights the research purpose and objectives, literature review which is predominantly based on information gathered from secondary sources such as books, talent management related academic journals, industry-based research, professional body's websites, publications and statistical information and drew out the main issues that arose from these sources. This proposal also highlights the research design and methodology which includes the research scope and sample size
Literature review and Critical analysis VITAL FACTORS This study aimed to explore the most influencing factors in an entrepreneurial business creation. A review of literature identified three main schools of thought in regard to entrepreneurship and SMEs. First, a humanistic school of thought focuses on the entrepreneurs and their personal respective concerns. Accordingly, the entrepreneur's personalities and backgrounds including family, education, work experience and entrepreneurship, gender, age
of the key variables is characteristic of this literature, which makes synthesis of results challenging. Many judgments must be made about which studies are comparable, which findings (if any) contribute significantly to a conclusion about what this literature says, and perhaps regarding how to transform similar measures collected differently so they can be read side by side. The review of evidence here builds on a series of recent systematic reviews with well-defined search criteria. At least one
The paper specifically reviews the articles of journals and books globally by different authors and identifies an area where a new contribution could be made through the existing literatures and so the author thinks if proper guidance and support is provided by banks can really promote women’ s social status and social transformation. The Reasons business correspondent in empowering women Important aspects required for business setup like marketing strategies, study of cash management, skills
people. This literature review will try to understand the place of women in regards to the glass ceiling effect in the service industry in France (Meda, 2006, pp. 624). First of all we need to explain what is the glass ceiling effect: Dr Alston define the glass ceiling effect to be “an invisible barrier that prevents someone from achieving further success. It is most often used in the context of someone's age, gender, or ethnicity keeping them from advancing to a certain point in a business or when he
challenge today.Family pattern may be one of the reason of obstacle. Son’s occupation is followed by father’s. If father is service holder , the inclination of son towards business is not very common. Even the motivation from the head of the family towards business is also not so very much expected. Besides , many cases are there where business man father wants his son or daughter should go for job not for
This literature review will focus attention to how people expect a corporation to succeed in modern times and what influence people can have over a business purpose, (Johnson, Scholes, & Whittington, 2005). Two of the expectations that will be reviewed are Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Ethics. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the commitment by organizations to ‘behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their
CHAPTER 2 Literature Review In Chapter 2 the film industry is analysed with special focus on the Marketing Mix. The chapter is introduced by the cinema industry sector. Furthermore it gives a detailed description of what an experience is what leads to the importance of marketing and makes clear why the 4Ps have been chosen to structure the literature review. The central theme is to discover the most appropriate film industry elements for the four different variables of the Marketing Mix to provide
successful entrepreneur is the differentiating factor, from any average entrepreneur. Owing to the increase in the multitude of offerings and products in the market, finding profitable ventures need not only a good idea/business plan, but also the proper frame of mind and business acumen to execute the idea. Some traits are acquired with years of experience, whereas some qualities are innate such as having an intuition about the viability of the idea after scanning the market and relying on the intuition