Can family business managers manage family business risks?

Visser, Thea; Scheers, Louise van

doi:10.30924/mjcmi/2018.23.1.123

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“…In many cases, relatives were a significant share of the staff, and several FFPR had inherited the business from their parents or close relatives. These results were not surprising, as Portuguese food businesses are still embedded in a familiar character [30,31].…”

Section: Fresh Fishery Product Retailers Socio-demographic Datamentioning

confidence: 86%

Specific Hygiene Procedures and Practices Assessment: A Cross-Sectional Study in Fresh Fishery Product Retailers of Lisbon’s Traditional Food Markets

Oliveira

Rodrigues

Henriques

2021

Foods

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This study aimed to assess the compliance of specific hand hygiene and food contact surfaces hygiene in fresh fishery product retailers (FFPR) and its relation to socio-demographic characteristics that might influence the observed procedures and practices. A cross-sectional study was conducted in traditional food markets’ FFPRs (N = 74) using interviews and audits for data collection purposes. Results revealed that women were overrepresented among FFPR managers; most were over 50 years of age and had a long working experience in fish retail activities, despite a low educational level. The majority had attended training courses in food hygiene, safety, and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points-based procedures. Both documental assessment and hand hygiene procedures and practices verification revealed a low level of compliance. Many documents supporting hygiene practices were lacking. Several non-conforming requisites were identified related to the handwashing procedure and equipment and to glove wearing practices. A higher level of compliance was obtained in food contact surfaces hygiene procedures and practices verification, with complete hygiene procedures applied and proper cleaning of utensils and chemical products management in several cases. These findings reflect an ambiguous understanding and misconceptions related to hygiene procedures and practices, suggesting the need to improve and update FFPR food handler training regarding basic food hygiene and safety.

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Section: Fresh Fishery Product Retailers Socio-demographic Datamentioning

confidence: 86%

Specific Hygiene Procedures and Practices Assessment: A Cross-Sectional Study in Fresh Fishery Product Retailers of Lisbon’s Traditional Food Markets

Oliveira

Rodrigues

Henriques

2021

Foods

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“…According to Bari & Arshad (2019) leadership is essential for entrepreneurs to develop business activities. On the other hand, the expansion of leadership in individuals can encourage others to compete with their organization (Khan, 2021;Visser & van Scheers, 2018). In a leadership concept, a self-leader defines goals and enhances the ability to secure their organizational resources (Shatzer, Caldarella, Hallam, & Brown, 2014).…”

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Access to Finance and Legal Framework in Female Entrepreneurship Development in Bangladesh: The Mediating Role of Self-Leadership

Yingjun

Jahan

Qamruzzaman

2021

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The growing need for entrepreneurship is considered to be a prominent segment of an economy's evolution, especially female entrepreneurs. This study's motivation is to unleash the critical determinants for female entrepreneurs' evolution in the economy of Bangladesh by following institution and self-leadership theory. The study adopted a quantitative method and a structured questionnaire for data collection from female entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was applied to explore the causal effects of access to finance and legal framework. The study revealed that women's entrepreneurial activities are immensely influenced by access to finance, legal constraints, and entrepreneurial skills. The mediating effects of self-leadership behavior also influence women's participation in business activities. Based on the results, it is recommended that the government and other institutions should take the initiative in female entrepreneurship that affect women's self-leading behavior and policymakers should consider the financial aspects relating to women’s business activities. This study is also helpful for empowering women financially and helping them to understand their legal rights by formulating a women-centric strategic plan.

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“…In many cases, relatives make up a significant share of the staff. Family business operators relate to informal relations, altruistic leadership, poorly trained management and relatively unqualified personnel (Visser & van Scheers, 2018). Therefore, these systems are regarded with surprise and understood as unnecessary by the food units' management.…”

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Assessing the implementation of food defense requirements in industrial meat-based food processors

Praia¹,

Henriques²

2021

Braz. J. Food Technol.

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Food defense is the effort to protect food from causing harm to the consumer, including security procedures to mitigate intentional acts of adulteration. To assure entry in new markets, food companies need to develop and implement food defense strategies through third-party certification. Although there are some programs designed to assist food business operators in creating effective food defense strategies, this is still not regarded as a priority by food companies. As a first aim of this work, a first-party audit of two meat-producing industries was performed to verify the implementation of food defense requirements. The second purpose of the work was to compare vulnerabilities identified in those two food industries with the ones detected in other previously certified food units in Portugal. For such, a food defense requirements checklist was prepared for the audit and a private certification database was consulted to compare audit results with those from other food business operators certified by at least one international food defense standard. Audit results revealed that both industries were above 50% in overall compliance regarding food defense requirements; still the main vulnerabilities were related to the lack of a food defense plan, the failure to identify critical areas, ineffective warning systems and no training in food defense. Similar vulnerabilities were detected in other certified national food business operators, leading to the conclusion that implementation of food defense requirements seems to be underestimated. As an intervention strategy proposal, food defense training would be of upmost importance to get staff and managers acquainted with the concept.

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Can family business managers manage family business risks?

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Cited by 17 publications

References 36 publications

Specific Hygiene Procedures and Practices Assessment: A Cross-Sectional Study in Fresh Fishery Product Retailers of Lisbon’s Traditional Food Markets

Specific Hygiene Procedures and Practices Assessment: A Cross-Sectional Study in Fresh Fishery Product Retailers of Lisbon’s Traditional Food Markets

Access to Finance and Legal Framework in Female Entrepreneurship Development in Bangladesh: The Mediating Role of Self-Leadership

Assessing the implementation of food defense requirements in industrial meat-based food processors

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