Incumbents’ Attitude Toward Intra-Family Succession: An Investigation of its Antecedents

Incumbents’ attitude toward intrafamily succession (IFS) is a critical individual-level determinant of family firms’ IFS intention, which is, in turn, an important component of family business essence. Knowledge about its antecedents, however, is fragmented and very limited. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior and general attitude literature, hypotheses about the situational and individual antecedents of family firm incumbents’ attitude toward IFS were developed and tested with a sample of 274 Italian family firm incumbents. Results show that incumbents’ attitude toward IFS is indeed influenced by both situational and individual antecedents as well as by their interactions.

Family Firm Incumbent’s Attitude toward Intra-family Succession: Antecedents and Effects on Intentions

Research shows that intention for intra-family succession is an important determinant of family firm behavior. To provide a systematic analysis of the antecedents of such intention, we use the theory of planned behavior to model the incumbent leader’s attitude toward intra-family succession because that particular attitude is idiosyncratic to family firms. Empirical tests using a sample of 271 Italian incumbent leaders of family firms show that, as predicted by planned behavior theory, attitude and self-efficacy are significant predictors of intention. They show further that attitude is affected by the number of children, emotional attachment, and need for control.

Decomposing hierarchical alignment: Co-arguments as conditions on alignment and the limits of referential hierarchies as explanations in verb agreement

Apart from common cases of differential argument marking, referential hierarchies affect argument marking in two ways: (a) through hierarchical marking, where markers compete for a slot and the competition is resolved by a hierarchy, and (b) through co-argument sensitivity, where the marking of one argument depends on the properties of its co-argument. Here we show that while co-argument sensitivity cannot be analyzed in terms of hierarchical marking, hierarchical marking can be analyzed in terms of co-argument sensitivity. Once hierarchical effects on marking are analyzed in terms of co-argument sensitivity, it becomes possible to examine alignment patterns relative to referential categories in exactly the same way as one can examine alignment patterns relative to referential categories in cases of differential argument marking and indeed any other condition on alignment (such as tense or clause type). As a result, instances of hierarchical marking of any kind turn out not to present a special case in the typology of alignment, and there is no need for positing an additional non-basic alignment type such as “hierarchical alignment”. While hierarchies are not needed for descriptive and comparative purposes, we also cast doubt on their relevance in diachrony: examining two families for which hierarchical agreement has been postulated, Algonquian and Kiranti, we find only weak and very limited statistical evidence for agreement paradigms to have been shaped by a principled ranking of person categories.

On the development of a theory of traveler attitude-behavior interrelationships volume III: executive summary; overview of methods, results, and conclusions. Final report.

Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, Mass.

Alignment charts, construction and use /

"First published December 1944. Reprinted January 1946."

The attitude of science towards miracles /

Reprinted in Journal of the transactions of the Victoria Institute, vol. 42, 1910.

On the development of a theory of traveler attitude-behavior interrelationships: volume I - input to theory development. Final report.

Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, Mass.

On the development of a theory of traveler attitude-behavior interrelationships: volume II: theoretical and empirical findings. Final report.

Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, Mass.

Horizontal alignment design consistency for rural two-lane highways /

"January 1995."

Trends in knowledge, attitude and behavior relating to drinking and driving. Final report.

Alcohol Safety Action Project--Puerto Rico, San Juan

Attitude instrument flying.

Includes Change no. 1 (Oct. 31, 1966) and Change no. 4 (March 15, 1973).

Guerra da Europa : documentos diplomaticos. Attitude do Brasil, 1914-1917 [-1918].

At head of title: Ministerio das relac o es exteriores.

Finland reveals her secret documents on soviet policy, March 1940 - June 1941. The attitude of the USSR to Finland after the peace of Moscow.

On cover:... Official Blue-white book of Finland...

Alignment and grade of culverts. Part I. Determination of required size, alignment and grade of culverts.

Mode of access: Internet.