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http://dx.doi.org/10.11625/KJOA.2015.23.4.749

A Study on the Strategic Management Characteristics of Family-owner Firms and Family Farms : the Similarities and the Application for Farm Household Studies  

Ko, Kyung-Ho (Dankook University)
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Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture / v.23, no.4, 2015 , pp. 749-756 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study aims at identifying the characteristics of family-owner firms from the business studies and searching for the usefulness of the concept for the farming research. From the 1980s, there have been a lot of studies on family business which found out its different features in term of management characteristics. Exploring the concept of the family business, this tries to figure out any kind of similarities of the family farm concept which could be applied for the studies on identifying novel characteristics of contemporary family farms in capitalised societies.
Keywords
family business; family-owner firm; family farm; SMEs; Management characteristics;
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