How family influence,socioemotional wealth,and competitive conditions shape new technology adoption

Research summary : In family businesses, investment decisions often involve both socioemotional wealth and economic considerations. Focusing on new technology adoption, we argue that multiple dimensions of socioemotional wealth contribute to complex effects within different types of family firms—depending on the level of family control—as well as in contrast to non‐family firms. Results based on cable TV operators from 1983 to 1987 confirm that family ownership correlates negatively with technology adoption, especially when family owners hold a minority rather than majority position. We also show contingencies based on performance improvements and competitive threats. Our arguments contribute new insights about the tensions between economic and socioemotional factors within minority family ownership that are absent from non‐family firms and more pronounced than in majority family firms. Managerial summary : We find evidence of greater reluctance toward new technology adoption among firms with minority family influence than majority family influence. This suggests that goals related to socioemotional wealth only partly explain the cautious decision‐making observed in family firms, with further caution arising from conflicting priorities between family and non‐family owners. Recent performance improvements help offset the reluctance to adopt new technology, albeit to a lesser degree among firms with minority family ownership. High levels of competitive threats also offset the reduction in new technology adoption, and contrary to expectations, to a greater extent among minority family firms. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Lone Mothers: What is to be done?

This Dialogue presents the views of four authors, from the US, the UK, and Norway, on the best policies to help lone mothers. Lone mothers face an inevitable dilemma in allocating their time between earning income and caring for their children. The low-earning capacity of women in an unequal labor market exacerbates the problem, causing material hardship for many lone mothers and their families. The policy solutions proposed lie along a spectrum, ranging from those that seek to enable all lone mothers to take employment to those that aim to let mothers choose whether to take employment or care for their children themselves. Other policies discussed concern ways to value and support caregiving, improve the low-wage labor market for women, and provide a set of income supports that would both boost income and provide time to care for children.     

工作家庭冲突对饭店女性员工顾客导向影响实证分析

工作家庭冲突对员工工作和家庭行为都具有显著的影响。针对高星级饭店女性员工的实证调查表明,家庭对工作的干扰和工作对家庭的干扰都会导致员工出现情绪衰竭和情感疏远的倾向,进而削弱员工的顾客导向。因此,饭店管理者需要从设计弹性管理策略和系统构建家庭支持方案入手,缓和员工工作和家庭之间的冲突,目的在于同时提升员工的工作绩效和主观幸福感。     

《小岭曹氏宗谱》宣纸研究史料价值及若干问题释疑

《小岭曹氏宗谱》是一部尤对宣纸研究有特殊史料价值的史籍，它给后人留下了有关宣纸经营、产区分布、重要宣纸人物和宣纸发展史上重大事件的记载，同时还引发了我们对历史上小岭曹氏历代遵行“口训”，长期有效地对宣纸技艺进行保密问题的思考。     

Married couples’ involvement with family vacations

Abstract

The involvement construct has received a great deal of attention in recent years. However, the majority of research on this topic has focused on the individual and has ignored spouses’ shared leisure involvement. In addition, little work has been done on involvement in the product‐class context of family vacations. This study examined the underlying dimensions of married couples’ involvement with family vacations and how these dimensions relate to selected personal variables. Factor analysis revealed two underlying dimensions. Stepwise multiple regression revealed that pleasure‐importance was positively related to gender role ideology and education and negatively related to presence of children in the home. A positive relation existed between the second dimension, sign value, and age. The study provides insight into both the nature of the involvement construct and how it might be used in future research.     

转型期东北农村基督教家庭教会盛行的原因探析

基督教作为一种结论性①的西方意识形态渗透到中国,尤其是不断传播到偏远的农村地区,其教义等也随着理解的问题出现偏差。本文将以东北地区的基督教农村家庭教会为对象,结合地区经济、文化和政治等方面特点,着重从个人原因、社会相关阶层的原因和基督教自身原因三个角度来分析,促进农村家庭教会更加规范和健康的发展。     

Sustainability practices of family firms: the interplay between family ownership and long-term orientation

Sustainability practices are critical for family firms, as they relate directly to the continuity of the business and relationships with important stakeholders, such as members of the local community. Nevertheless, not all family firms wish to adopt sustainability practices. To examine this, we draw upon the socioemotional wealth perspective in order to develop a theoretical model of the direct negative effects of family ownership on the adoption of sustainability practices. We also suggest moderating effects of long-term orientation (LTO) on this link. Our model is tested on a sample of 195 family firms in the tourism and hospitality sector. The results support our hypothesis that family ownership negatively influences the adoption of sustainability practices. Additionally, LTO moderates the relationship between family ownership and the adoption of sustainability practices, such that family owners with a high LTO are more likely to adopt this particular practice compared to those with a low LTO.     

Entrepreneurial orientation in family firms: the case of the hospitality industry

Research increasingly shows interest in the motives and characteristics of entrepreneurs in the tourism and hospitality industry. Small and medium-sized family firms dominate this industry. Learning from the concept of entrepreneurial orientation and family business research, this explorative study aims at analysing entrepreneurial behaviours and their effect on performance as perceived by owner-managers of hospitality family businesses. The authors conduct narrative in-depth interviews to understand the managers' meaning of entrepreneurship and performance, and discuss the results in the light of existing entrepreneurship literature. Results indicate that family firms in hospitality and tourism are peculiar, and their embeddedness in the destinations and regions outlines their entrepreneurial behaviour against Schumpeter's definition of growth-oriented entrepreneurship.     

简快身心积极疗法的理论基础及其逻辑关系之剖析

简快身心积极疗法在发展过程中,不拘泥于学术学派的束缚,系统整合了当前国内外各种实用有效的治疗技术,因其简洁快速、实用有效的临床辅导效果而独树一帜。本文尝试系统梳理简快身心积极疗法的理论基础,挖掘其内在逻辑关系,剖析其简快有效的原因所在。     

宗族式与小家庭式家庭结构对个体成长的影响

家庭,作为社会最基本的组织单位,承担着经济生产、生育子女、教养子女、赡养老人、满足个人的情感和生理需求等多方面的职能。每个人在作为独立个体进入社会之前都经历过一段相当长时间的家庭教养阶段,个人的人格、行为模式和价值观念等等都会受到家庭的莫大影响。所以不同家庭环境对于个体的发展起着不同的作用,本文旨在探讨传统宗族式家庭结构和现代小家庭式家庭结构对个体发展的不同路径的渗透。