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Não fiquem assustados com coisas como esta "Why Family Businesses Come Roaring out of Recessions":

"The family business is still widely regarded as an ineffective organizational form, especially in the US, even though recent evidence challenges this perception.  Some studies have shown that during periods of economic growth, family-managed companies in the US actually perform better than professionally managed businesses. [Moi ici: Artigo contém as hiperligações para os estudos que defendem cada uma das versões]
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However, a rising tide lifts all boats; it’s the ebbing tide that reveals the truth.  Just how do family businesses perform during recessions, when only the strong survive?
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To answer that question, we compared the performance of 148 publicly listed family-owned companies between 2000 and 2009 with that of 127 non-family businesses using Standard & Poor’s Compustat database.  Of course, the National Bureau of Economic Research classified two (2001 and 2008) of those 10 years as recession years.
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We found that family businesses handily outperformed non-family companies during both the 2001 and 2008 recessions in terms of a key metric, Tobin’s q."

 Reler o último parágrafo deste postal de Julho de 2012, "Acerca dos vinhos do Douro", depois, enquadrar:

"1. Family-owned businesses did not hold back on new product launches during the recessions.
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2. Family businesses maintained almost the same levels of ad-spend during the recession years as they did during normal times, helping them do better than the professionally managed companies, which reduced ad-spend when the times got tough.
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3. Family businesses maintained their emphasis on corporate social responsibility regardless of the state of the economy."

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"Family businesses’ proactive actions and long-term perspective during recessions are driven partly by a unique concern for future generations and an emphasis on preserving the family name,"