A Thematic Analysis of Cultural Variations in Family Businesses: The CASE Project

A netnographic examination of constructive authenticity in Victoria Falls tourist (restaurant) experiences

“…Thematic analysis was conducted on the reviews to identify recurrent patterns (Baumgartner and Schneider, 2010;Braun and Clarke, 2006;Floersch et al, 2010;Gupta and Levenburg, 2010). First, the reviews were read and reread a few times to get a general sense of the themes in the data.…”

Culture and values in family business—A review and suggestions for future research

“…The review also identified the importance of national culture (often using dimensions adopted from Hofstede) to examine how national level attributes affect family business behaviour (Carr & Bateman, 2010;Gundry & Ben-Yoseph, 1998;Gupta & Levenburg, 2010;Sharma & Manikutty, 2005;Sorenson & Yan, 2006;Welsh & Raven, 2006). In addition, there are country evaluations of 'culture' as is reflected in the range of countries addressed in the articles which include (to highlight a selection) Mexico (Athanassiou et al, 2002), China (Au and Kwan, 2009), Singapore (Lee, 1996), United States (Barnett et al, 2009;Holt et al, 2010;Poza et al, 1997;Zahra et al, 2004), Cyprus (Stavrou et al, 2005), Italy and Switzerland (Chirico & Nordqvist, 2010), Portugal (Howorth & Ali, 2001) and the Middle East (Welsh & Raven, 2006).…”

“Whom do I want to be the next CEO?” Desirable successor attributes in family firms

“…Because of the importance of informal institutions in Latin cultures (Gupta and Levenburg 2010), it is reasonable to expect to find a significant overlap between family and business. Spain represents an interesting context for analysis, as family firms are the dominant form of organization, representing two-thirds of the Spanish economy and generating more than 60 % of the country's employment.…”