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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Participation and Decision-Making in Family Firms

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  • Bonnie T. Nguyen
  • Andrew Wait

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We explore the implications of altruism in family firms for the allocation of decision-making rights. Our results suggest that centralization occurs in a broader range of circumstances in family than in nonfamily firms, consistent with empirical evidence. We show that an agent might remain in a decentralized family firm even though he prefers centralization, and that an agent might remain in a centralized family firm even when it does not do the type of work the agent prefers. We relate our findings to the relative performance of family versus nonfamily firms, and to problems of succession.

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  • Bonnie T. Nguyen & Andrew Wait, 2015. "Should I Stay or Should I Go? Participation and Decision-Making in Family Firms," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 171(2), pages 215-237, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:mhr:jinste:urn:sici:0932-4569(201506)171:2_215:sisosi_2.0.tx_2-o
    DOI: 10.1628/093245613X14273596658964
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    1. Liu, Dan & Meagher, Kieron J. & Wait, Andrew, 2022. "Market conditions and firm morality: Employee trust in the honesty of their managers," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 204(C), pages 89-106.

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    JEL classification:

    • D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
    • L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production
    • L29 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Other

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