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100 1 _aGÓMEZ-MEJÍA, Luis R.
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245 1 0 _aSocioemotional wealth and business risks in family-controlled firms :
_bevidence from spanish olive oil mills
260 _aIthaca :
_bJohnson Graduate School of Management,
_cMarch 2007
520 3 _aThis paper challenges the prevalent notion that family-owned firms are more risk averse than publicly-owned firms. Using behavioral theory, we argue that for family firms, the primary reference point is the loss of their socioemotional wealth, and to avoid those losses, family firms are willing to accept a significant risk to their performance; yet at the same time, they avoid risky business decisions that might aggravate that risk. Thus, we propose that the predictions of behavioral theory differ depending on family ownership. We confirm our hypotheses using a population of 1,237 family-owned olive oil mills in Southern Spain who faced the choice during a 54-year period of becoming a member of a cooperative, a decision associated with loss of family control but lower business risk, or remaining independent, which preserves the family's socioemotional wealth but greatly increases their performance hazard. As shown in this study, family firms may be risk willing and risk averse at the same time
700 1 _aHAYNES, Katalin Takács
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700 1 _aJACOBSON, Kathyrn J. L.
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700 1 _aMOYANO-FUENTES, José
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773 0 8 _tAdministrative Science Quarterly
_g52, 1, p. 106-137
_dIthaca : Johnson Graduate School of Management, March 2007
_xISSN 00018392
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_cTiago
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_cDaiane
999 _aConvertido do Formato PHL
_bPHL2MARC21 1.1
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