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Beyond Size: Predicting Engagement in Environmental Management Practices of Dutch SMEs
This study focuses on the prediction of the engagement of small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in environmental management practices, based on a random sample of 689 SMEs. The study finds that several endogenous factors, including tangibility of sector, firm size, innovative orientation, family influence and perceived financial benefits from energy conservation, predict an SME's level of engagement in selected environmental management practices. For family influence, this effect is found only in interaction with the number of owners. In addition to empirical research on SMEs' environmental behavior, this article draws on the ecological modernization literature as well as the theory of planned behavior.
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Muybridge and the riddle of locomotion
A biography of Eadweard Muybridge, famous for his invention of very fast photography, and his discovery of how animals and people run. Includes lenticular images of movement.
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Family governance practices and teambuilding: paradox of the enterprising family
This paper explores the relationship between family governance practices and financial performance of the business and family assets of business-owning families. A business-owning family that shares a focus on preserving and growing wealth as a family is defined as the enterprìsing family. Results of the study are consistent with predictions about the functioning of the enterprising family derived from research using social capital theory and group dynamics, especially with respect to teams. Family governance practices (family constitution, family code of conduct, clear selection and accountability criteria, family council, formal family communication mechanisms and family reunions) are hypothesized to build a strong and unified business-owning family functioning as a team. Results show that these practices are positively associated with financial performance. This relationship is mediated by a focus on preserving and growing business wealth as a family. Analyses are conducted on a sample of 64 family businesses from 18 countries.
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Structural aspects of corporate governance and family firm performance: a systematic review
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to systematically review and examine extant knowledge on corporate governance structures (CGS) and performance relation within family firm and set the agenda for future research.
Design/methodology/approach
The study analyses the content of 159 empirical articles retrieved mainly from Google Scholar and published between 2000 and 2016 in 61 highly ranked journals across different disciplines.
Findings
The review reveals fixation on quantitative approach and its associated techniques in examining CGS and performance nexus. The results from the review demonstrate heterogeneous relation between measures of CGS and performance. Suggestions for further studies include: measurement of non-economic performance of the family firm and incorporation of moderators and mediators from the organizations’ environment through the adoption of multilevel research.
Research limitations/implications
The limitations of this review include: first, issues relating to key/search terms and journals used for the study; this may not be exhaustive and hence likely to lead to omission of key publications. Second, scholarly attention in terms of empirical studies on family governance, including family council, family assembly and family constitution, has been scarce (Suess, 2014; Klein, 2008; Witt, 2008); hence family governance is outside the scope of this review. In sum, future work may explore other keywords and publications not used in this review and consider review of family governance.
Originality/value
The authors offer a multidisciplinary conceptual framework that synthesizes and integrates the existing literature on CGS across different disciplines within family firms. This provides researchers across different disciplines a common platform for interdisciplinary discourse.
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Responsible ownership behaviors and financial performance in family owned businesses
Purpose - This study aims to examine the relationship of ownership behaviors with both firm financial performance and family assets in the context of family owned businesses.Design methodology approach - The research framework allows for a comparison of predictions drawn from social psychological, economic, and management literature. The hypotheses are tested using ordinary least squares hierarchical regression analyses conducted on a nonrandom sample of medium and large family businesses.Findings - The empirical results identify four potential categories of responsible ownership behaviors: professionalism, active governance, owner as resource, and basic duties. Professionalism (i.e. acting in accordance with expectations and agreements among owners and in relation to the firm) is the only behavior positively associated with financial performance. The effect of active governance (i.e. the monitoring of management) on financial performance is moderated by business size - this behavior has a negative effect on the dependent variable for all but the largest firms in the sample.Research limitations implications - The limitations of the current research and directions for further research include issues related to sampling, other possible variables to be explored, and alternative validations of the responsible ownership concept.Practical implications - This study has direct practical implications for owners' actions in relation to one another and with other actors in the firm.Originality value - This study contributes to existing research on governance by developing a better understanding of the role of owners and their influence on the firm.
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Eadweard muybridge
Best known for his contribution to the development of the motion picture, Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was a pioneering photographer during his lifetime. Alongside his remarkable photographic achievements, his personal life was riddled with melodrama-including a near-fatal stagecoach accident and a betrayal by his wife that ended with Muybridge being tried for the murder of her lover. Marta Braun's revealing biography traces the sensational events of Muybridge's life and his personal reinventions as artist, photographer, researcher, and showman. In the 1870s, Muybridge's photography skills were enlisted by Leland Stanford, a racehorse breeder who later founded Stanford University, to prove the \"unsupported motion controversy\"-the theory that during a horse's stride, there was a moment when all four of its legs left the ground. The resulting collection of motion studies, as Braun explains, inspired Muybridge to take photography beyond landscapes to the realm of science. He went on to invent the zoopraxiscope, which captures movement too quick for the human eye to record. Most importantly, simulating motion through a series of stills, his pioneering use of sequence photography served as a forerunner to the introduction of cinematography in the 1890s.This illuminating study examines a man whose influence has resounded through generations. In Eadweard Muybridge, Braun firmly establishes Muybridge's central contributions to the history of art, science, photography, and motion pictures.
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Beyond the Screen
The visionaries of early motion pictures thought that movies could do more than just entertain. They imagined the medium had the potential to educate and motivate the audience. In national and local contexts from Europe, North America, and around the world, early filmmakers entered the domains of science and health education, social and religious uplift, labor organizing and political campaigning. Beyond the Screen captures this pioneering vision of the future of cinema.
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