Articles

How managerial attitudes toward the natural environment affect market orientation and innovation (with Clay Dibrell and Eric N. Hansen), Journal of business research (2011)

This study investigates natural environmental attitude linkages held by strategic decision makers and hypothesizes that...

 

Toward a better understanding of family enterprising (with Morris J. Mervyn), International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing (2010)

By integrating stewardship theory and entrepreneurial orientation perspectives we contribute to the understanding of the...

 

Strategically aligning family and business systems using the Balanced Scorecard (with Ken Moores), Journal of family business strategy (2010)

We take an integrated approach to align issues that influence the family and business, systems....

 

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Desk rejection: How to avoid being hit by a returning boomerang, Family business review (2010)

Manuscripts are desk rejected when they do not fit the mission of the journal or...

 

An investigation of hindsight bias in nascent venture activity (with Gavin Cassar), Journal of business venturing (2009)

We posit that individuals who are actively engaged in activities to develop their own venture...

 

Epilogue - family business: A rich research repository (with Ken Moores, Carole Howorth, and Panikkos Poutziouris), Journal of Management And Organizations (2009)

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As evidenced in our opening paper Family Business Research at a Tipping Point Threshold...

 

Factors critical in overcoming the liability of newness: Highlighting the role of family (with Clay Dibrell, Ken Moores, Aaron J. Johnson, and Peter S. David), The journal of private equity (2009)

With a focus on the role of family, we explore factors critical in enabling start-up...

 

Family business research at a tipping point threshold (with Ken Moores, Carole Howorth, and Panikkos Poutziouris), Journal of Management & Organisation (2009)

In this paper, we report the frequency that family business research has been published by...

 

Founding family leadership and industry profitability (with Trond Randoy and Clay Dibrell), Small business economics (2009)

In this article, we argue that firms in high-margin industries can benefit from founding family...

 

The performance implications of temporal orientation and information technology in organization-environment synergy (with Clay Dibrell and Peter S. Davis), Journal of strategy and management (2009)

Purpose: This paper aims to provide new evidence regarding the firm performance implications of using...

 

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Culture of family commitment and strategic flexibility: The moderating effect of stewardship (with Shaker A. Zahra, James C. Hayton, Donald O. Neubaum, and Clay Dibrell), Entrepreneurship theory and practice (2008)

The ability of family firms to identify and respond to changes in their external environments...

 

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Fueling innovation through information technology in SMEs (with Clay Dibrell and Peter S. Davis), Journal of small business management (2008)

This paper describes a study that investigates the mediating effects of information technology (IT) on...

 

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Leveraging family-based brand identity to enhance firm competitiveness and performance in family businesses (with Clay Dibrell and Peter S. Davis), Journal of Small Business Management (2007)

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Drawing on the family embeddedness perspective on entrepreneurship and the resource-based-view (RBV) of the...

 

The natural environment, innovation and firm performance: A comparative study (with Clay Dibrell), Family business review (2006)

In this article, we investigate the effect of firm-level natural-environment-related policies on innovation and financial...

 

A 10-year longitudinal investigation of strategy, systems, and environment on innovation in family firms (with Ken Moores), Family business review (2006)

This article studies innovation in family firms, filling in some gaps in existent literature. The...

 

Entrepreneurship education: Towards a discipline-based framework (with Debra Johnson and Ryan Hildebrand), Journal of management development (2006)

Purpose – The purpose of this exploratory research was to investigate whether: entrepreneurship in the...

 

Establishing individual differences related to opportunity alertness and innovation dependent on academic-career training (with Debra Johnson), Journal of management development (2006)

Purpose – The purpose of this research was to investigate using the seminal writings of...

 

Balanced scorecards to drive the strategic planning of family firms (with Ken Moores), Family business review (2005)

The focus of this research is the measurement and management tool known as the Balanced...

 

Dummy boards and bored dummies: Changes needed at Bauer Holdings (with James Bergmuller), Management case study journal (2005)

Frank Bauer rules Bauer Holdings by stealth and sees no reason why he should consider...

 

A framework for understanding opportunity recognition: Entrepreneurs versus private equity financiers (with Noel J. Lindsay), The journal of private equity (2002)

The issue of opportunity recognition, as opposed to opportunity evaluation, has received far less attention....

 

Conflict and family functioning in family business, The journal of SEAANZ (2002)
 

Incorporating the family dynamic into the entrepreneurship process (with Noel J. Lindsay), Journal of small business and enterprise development (2002)

This research furthers our understanding of the interaction between the fields of entrepreneurship and family...

 

A look at organizational conflict in family business, The journal of SEAANZ (2001)
 

Books

Understanding family enterprise: A book of readings (with Ken Moores) (2011)

This collection of papers, written over a span of about 16 years by researchers associated...

 

Stars under the Southern Cross: The untold stories of Queensland family businesses (with Noel J. Lindsay), Stars under the Southern Cross: The untold stories of Queensland family businesses (2001)

This book, a Centenary of Federation celebration project, contains many Queensland family business stories that...

 

Book Chapters

Observe, experience and integrate: Enhancing professional development using international study tours (with Li-Anne Woo, Titan Liu, and Timothy Kiessling), Innovations in teaching and learning: Approaches to professional development from across the disciplines (2010)

This chapter provides evidence of the positive benefits associated with adopting an international study tour...

 

Australia’s Dennis Family Corporation (with Ken Moores), Culturally-sensitive Models of Family Businesses in Anglo Region - A Compendium using the GLOBE paradigm (2008)

This paper details how the Australia Dennis family has been able to professionalize their family...

 

From vision to variables: A scorecard to continue the professionalization of a family firm (with Ken Moores), Handbook of research on family business (2006)

This chapter builds on previous projects we have conducted that have concentrated on the key...

 

Working with family business: A content validity study of the Aspen Family Business Inventory (with S. Moncrief and J. Paul), Handbook of research on family business (2006)
 

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Linking transgenerational value creation with natural environment and sustainability policy in family and non-family owned firms: Extending the agency-stewardship theory debate (with Clay Dibrell), Frontiers of entrepreneurship research: Proceedings of the 25th annual entrepreneurship research conference (2005)

In this paper, we extend the existing agency-stewardship theory debate by linking transgenerational value creation...

 

The professionalization process: The Dennis Family Corporation case (with Ken Moores), Family business casebook annual 2004 (2004)

Bert and Dawn Dennis were faced with a decision that had to be made and...

 

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Quantifying “gut feeling” in the opportunity recognition process (with Noel J. Lindsay), Frontiers of entrepreneurship research: Proceedings of the twenty-first annual entrepreneurship research conference (2001)

This research used a questionnaire and psychophysiological responses to an investment opportunity proposal to provide...

 

Conference Papers

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OVERCOMING THE LIABILITY OF THEORETICAL NEWNESS: THE CASE FOR STEWARDSHIP THEORY (SUMMARY) (with Clay Dibrell and Donald Neubaum), Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research (2010)

To overcome stewardship theory’s liability of newness, we introduce a validated and reliable measure for...

 

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Championing family business issues to influence public policy: Evidence from Australia (with Ken Moores), 9th International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) world family business research conference: Global perspectives on family business developments: Theory - practice - policy (2009)

This paper proposes a strategy for the family firm sector to gain the attention of...

 

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ACCESSION TOURNAMENTS: THE APPLICATION OF A GAME THEORY DERIVATIVE TO THE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FAMILY BUSINESS ACCESSION PROCESS (INTERACTIVE PAPER) (with Clay Dibrell), Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research (2009)

We argue that the recent governance and professionalization focus in family business research conversations, while...

 

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LEGITIMIZING THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT IN SMES: A STRATEGIC ISSUE INTERPRETATION PERSPECTIVE (SUMMARY) (with Clay Dibrell), Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research (2009)

How do businesses legitimize their natural environmental strategic initiatives? In this research, we are concerned...

 

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The impact of firm natural environment policy on the market orientation to innovation relationship in SMEs (Interactive paper) (with Clay Dibrell and Eric N. Hansen), Frontiers of entrepreneurship research (2009)

As the natural environment emerges as a strategic issue, conceptual linkages are leading to empirical...

 

Natural environment, market orientation, and firm innovativeness: A life cycle perspective (with Clay Dibrell and Eric N. Hansen), 2009 Meeting of the Southern Management Association (SMA) (2009)

We investigate the moderating effects of the natural environment on the market orientation to firm...

 

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The road to legitimacy: a study of startups and their established competitors in the Australian wine industry (with Clay Dibrell, Aaron Johnson, Peter Davis, and Ken Moores), Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research (2008)

A barrier to startup success is the liability of newness. One strategy to overcome this...

 

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New venture growing pains: When being acquired is an appropriate remedy (with Timothy Kiessling), 5th AGSE international entrepreneurship research exchange (2008)

Our empirical research explores acquisitions of small entrepreneurial firms with a focus on the entrepreneurial...

 

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Agency differences in professional family businesses: the known and the unknown (with Ken Moores), 1st Asian Invitational Conference on Family Business (2008)

We suggest in this paper one of the reasons that researchers concur agency costs in...

 

Being the boss and working for a boss: Upsides and downsides (with Michael Schaper and Clay Dibrell), Paper presented at the 21st ANZAM (2007) conference: Managing our intellectual and social capital (2007)

Comparatively, very little of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics (HILDA) data set has been...

 

Between a strategic rock and a hard place: Planning and flexibility in family and non-family firms (with Clay Dibrell), Paper presented at the 21st ANZAM (2007) conference: Managing our intellectual and social capital (2007)

In this research, we compare firms' capacity to react to emerging opportunities and threats (strategic...

 

Overcoming liability of newness through legitimacy: A stakeholder salience perspective (with Clay Dibrell, Aaron Johnson, and Ken Moores), Paper presented at the 21st ANZAM (2007) conference: Managing our intellectual and social capital (2007)

Findings are presented on how start-up ventures in search of legitimacy are affected by internal...

 

Theses

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An investigation and behavioural explanation of family businesser functioning, Theses (2004)

This research investigated the causes of behavioural difficulties among family businessers in two studies. Study...