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The English Premier League is full of stars.
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Extreme Configurability with Gentoo LinuxSubmitted by srlinuxx on Tuesday 14th of December 2010 05:31:49 AM Filed under
2indya.com: Gentoo is one of the most talked and noted Linux distributions that have been in active development stage for last 6-7 years. Although there are only a limited number of followers for Gentoo when compared with some other distributions such as Ubuntu, Gentoo has been delivering a best Linux distribution suited for power users. Let's have a look.
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Should we be lesser GNUs?Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 27th of October 2010 04:03:13 AM Filed under
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Architectures and GentooSubmitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 3rd of October 2010 03:14:22 PM Filed under
armin762.wordpress: In gentoo we support 13 different architectures. Although amd64 and x86 are the most common and popular, they are only 2 architectures of the total 13 we support, so i thought i could write about the rest of the architectures and their status on Gentoo.
Larry The Cow Graphics ContestSubmitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 1st of September 2010 01:33:02 PM Filed under
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planet larry needs a new homeSubmitted by srlinuxx on Friday 20th of August 2010 02:03:32 AM Filed under
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Broken every other weekSubmitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 15th of August 2010 11:47:04 PM Filed under
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2010 Gentoo Screenshot Contest ResultsSubmitted by srlinuxx on Tuesday 10th of August 2010 01:39:36 PM Filed under
gentoo.org: As the quantity and quality of this year's entries will attest, Gentoo is alive, well, and taking no prisoners!
OpenSUSE 11.3, the best binary KDE distribution or best KDE distribution?Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 8th of August 2010 05:35:30 PM Filed under
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Shooting video at night is typically something that most people try to avoid. For one, people usually are exhausted at the end of the day. They don't want to extend their workday out until the night. Also, it gets very costly because you have to bring in special lights. So it's just huge, expensive, laborious mess that people usually don't like to fiddle with. So instead, they use the age-old adage, fix it in post. So, oftentimes, what we need to do, as editors, is create what they call a Day for Night shot. So it's a shot that was shot during the day and it's our job to make it look like it was shot at night.
So I have here this footage, this random footage I shot on the rooftop of the building in Seattle, just this crane and some buildings. I want to give you some pointers, just in case you do shoot your own footage or some things to watch our for, or if you have a choice of what type of footage, maybe just like you have to make an exterior, to look like it's night time and you have your choice between different exterior shots. Here are some things to look out for. Number one in this shot, the sun is very strong. So all the buildings that are pointing towards us are very bright on their face, and then they're shadowed on the sides.
That's a dead giveaway that a Day for Night shot is fake because that's really hard to get rid of. So if you can, try to get a shot that's overcast. So all of the sides of the building, and all the light sources to be kind of nondescript, and that's usually how the way things are at night. Beware also of any other things that might giveaway that it's daytime, for example, really bright reflections and glints and highlights and things like that that are very obvious that it was taken during the day. Now, we're using this footage, even though it's kind of technically bad footage, because the sun is bright here, as I mentioned, and there are shadows on the sides because if we play our cards right, if we fiddle with the colors just right, then we could kind of make it appear that this is just kind of moonlight, and this is just the direction of the moon at the current time.
So the first thing I want to do is apply the Fast Color Corrector effect. We're going to do this just because we don't really need complex color adjustment here. I'm just going to drag this center of point of our Color Wheel, just drag it to blue. What I'm trying to do here is create a night-night time shot. But you might want to create kind of like a sunset, day for night shot, in which case you probably want to tint things more orange, even a little pinkish, but I'm going for a straight night shot, so I'm going to do blue.
I am also going to take the Saturation level down to about 50. Now this does not look like a nighttime shot at all yet, but I'm just using the Fast Color Corrector effect to get our colors where they need to be. That is looking pretty good there for what it is. So now I'm going to go and apply the RGB Curves effect after the Fast Color Corrector effect. Open this up. And we're going to be working, again, just with the Master Curve here. Now the first couple of things we're going to do are probably the most important, and they're kind of quirky.
I'm going to go to the Highlights, on the right-hand side here. Now I'm going to drag this straight down. What that's going to do is it's going to make it so it changes the brightest highlight in the image. So it really didn't darken everything so much as it just made the brightest point, no longer quite so bright. So if we had it where it was, then all of these little white spots would kind of be dead giveaways, because usually you don't get that bright of highlights at nighttime. So we're deadening our highlights.
Next, I want to kind of crush the blacks. At nighttime, there is a lot of things that are very dark. So typically, in a full day shot, we wouldn't want to crush the blacks, because you want details in the shadows, but oftentimes, at night, you can't get those details in the shadows. So maybe that's a little bit too extreme on both of those points, but just to show you what that's doing. Next, I'm going to grab the middle of this curve, and just drag this down so it darkens all of those colors generally. Now, if we take a step back and look at this , we have a pretty good Day for Night shot.
Maybe these highlights do need to come down a little bit, darken those up a little bit, and pull this down a little bit more. I'm looking at this color right here on this building, still a little bright for moonlight. That's a little too dark, somewhere in between those two extremes, maybe the shadows are also too extreme here, lighten those up a little bit by dragging that bottom point to the left. Now as you can see, it's just a little bit of fiddling. But I think that we have a pretty believable night shot. We might want to go in and lighten up these shadows just a little bit, or we could probably just leave them there as well.
Again, it's according to taste, what you might want to do is have some reference images, maybe go to an image search like Google or Bing and do an image search on just what buildings look like at nighttime, or moonlit buildings, and look at some of those properties, and try to adjust the settings so you can replicate that effect. So here is the beginning. We change the color and the saturation, and then we applied the Luminance Correction there. I'm just going to go ahead and double- click this clip in the Project panel so we can see the before and the after.
So what we're looking at here is the same frame from the same clip. This is before our adjustments, and this is after our adjustments. As you could see, the difference is night and day. Get it? Night and day because it's day for night. Okay, terrible joke. On to the next chapter. But this is basically an easy, quick way to save tons of money in production by doing these effects, and faking the night shot by using these effects that are in Premiere.
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ALIPAC Blames "Machete" For Unrest in LA
Over the weekend, police officers in Los Angeles shot and killed a Guatemalan immigrant who was reportedly threatening local residents with a knife, and the incident set off several nights of unrest in the neighborhood .
But according to Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, it is not the shooting but rather the new movie "Machete" is actually responsible for the tensions:
Especially having a movie like Robert Rodriguez's MACHETE showing in over 3,000 movie theaters in America, we must be on guard for possible massive civil unrest. The movie Machete is an expensive, anti-American, propaganda film masquerading as satire. The movie depicts illegal aliens killing Americans who they believe are deserving of death because of their racism and violence towards Hispanics. While a film demonizing Americans is broadcast across the land, the remake of the 1980's film Red Dawn has been canceled. Mobs of well armed illegal aliens attacking demonized Americans is promoted while a movie about Americans defending our homeland from invasion by communist forces is canceled. Does everyone understand what is happening here?
The latest illegal alien fueled riots in Los Angeles began three days after MACHETE was released nationally, depicting an army of illegals violently rising up against American oppressors. If the unrest in Los Angeles continues or spreads, ALIPAC will publicly demand that Machete be withdrawn from theaters.
ALIPAC goes on to warn that "illegal alien fueled riots and mayhem" will continue until "We The People" reclaim our nation:
These incidents should be a warning to all Americans that illegal alien fueled riots and mayhem can manifest in the blink of an eye in response to unexpected provocations. The illegals are feeling the heat from Americans and are ready to jump. Please make sure that you and your family members are properly prepared for any future mass disturbances and please utilize all of your American rights to provide for your own security and preparedness.
Things will get worse and become more horrific until We The People unify our time and resources to take back our government. We cannot be safe, secure, or economically stable much less prosperous, until our nation is made healthy again and the Republic is Restored.
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Bring your little girl's special birthday party to life with specialty lifesize cardboard cutouts in her favorite characters. We know you want to make her day as special as you can that's why we've assembled this selection of unique lifesize cutouts just for a young girl's birthday party. With so many to choose from and such affordable prices, you may need to get more than one. When shopping for cardboard cutouts, plan to coordinate the standee with the party's overall theme. Our cutie cowgirl and pony are the perfect lifesize cardboard cutout for a girl's Western or cowgirl theme party. This freestanding prop is printed on one side and measures six-feet tall! Set it with a backdrop wall covered in pink Shimmera fabric for the cutest photo set-up. Take pictures of the birthday girl with the adorable cutout and each of her guests for special keepsakes.
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King Edward II is a Great Western Railway (GWR) heavy express steam locomotive, one of only three surviving members of this class of loco. Introduced in the 1920s for hauling express trains over the steep gradients (banks) of South Devon, the Kings were withdrawn in the early 1960s as diesel locomotives replaced them. King Edward II (a.k.a. 6023) spent many years rotting at Barry Scrapyard, and had her rear driving wheels cut through with an oxy-acetylene torch after a shunting accident. This site tells the long story of her restoration...
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Through the winter of 2013, King Edward II was put to use on the Great Central Railway following boiler repairs, and starred there briefly under the guise of Richard III following the discovery of the the monarch's bones under a car park in nearby Leicester.
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Meet Jack. Jack is the bartender over at TheBar.com, serving up virtual drinks and telling witty cyber-stories. And he's pretty good too...we were solidly entertained for a good 10 minutes watching him mix drinks and tell stories about everything from running a marathon for a case of Johnnie Walker scotch to "borrowing" his employer's private jet to take a beautiful girl to Paris.
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You may have heard of MinnPost.com, voiceofsandiego.org and propublica.com. All are nonprofit websites dedicated to quality journalism. All must have had their start somewhere. I've had a similar idea. I'm an editor at a small local daily, although I've had a long stint as a pretty good political reporter. Three reporter friends and myself are looking at founding our own nonprofit online-only journalism organization dedicated to state politics. I should note that all of us have some pretty strong credentials and between us have won a number of awards, so we know we can handle the reporting end of this venture. [more inside]
Arts and culture organizations by and about young people in Southern California?
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Most Cited Journal of Family Business Strategy Articles
The most cited articles published since 2011, extracted from Scopus.
Family business and financial performance: Current state of knowledge and future research challengesChiara Mazzi
Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2011, Pages 166-181
The present study investigates the link between family ownership/control/management and firm performance, focusing on financial relations. This study aims to reconstruct the existing theoretical framework and systematize the current state of knowledge, distinguishing between widely corroborated findings and those that have not been clearly substantiated. Towards this aim, the present work analyses 23 articles that were selected according to systematic review criteria in the most relevant databases for social sciences research. The lack of homogeneity in the results of previous studies suggests that the relationships between family business and corporate performance are complex and very probably moderated or mediated by factors that have not been included in these analyses. The main areas that need further investigation are as follows: (i) the multidimensional concept of performance and the shift from wealth creation to value creation, (ii) the validity and perspectives of theoretical approaches to the study of family firms, (iii) the family business definition dilemma and its implications, and (iv) the growing interest in privately held family firms. These topics represent strategic challenges and opportunities for future research. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Family firms: A research agenda and publication guideMike Wright | Franz W. Kellermanns
Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 187-198
This paper develops a framework for future family firm research based on the types of family entrepreneurs, process of opportunity recognition, type of organization, environment and interactions among the aforementioned elements. In addition, future research on both economic and non-economic outcome variables is discussed. We conclude with a discussion intended to help facilitating family firm publications. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Ownership versus management effects on performance in family and founder companies: A Bayesian reconciliationJoern H. Block | Peter Jaskiewicz | Danny Miller
Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 232-245
We employ agency theory to argue that the effects of family (and founder) ownership versus management will be quite different: the former is expected to contribute positively to performance, the latter is argued to erode performance. Previous studies, due to problems of multicollinearity have been unable to distinguish these effects. Using a Bayesian approach that avoids these problems, we find that whereas family and founder ownership are associated with superior performance, the results for family and even founder management are more ambiguous. Our study is the first to assess the distinctive performance effects of family and founder presence in both ownership and management using a Bayesian approach. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Ideal types of family business management: Horizontal fit between family and business decisions and the relationship with family business performanceRodrigo Basco | María José Pérez Rodríguez
Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2011, Pages 151-165
Despite considerable progress made using systems and configurative approaches in family business research, current knowledge remains limited on how different combinations of organizational attributes determine relevant outcomes and, therefore, how family affects businesses. To address this question, we focus on the overlap between family and business at management and governance levels. We posit that family- and business-oriented decisions emerge in four areas: board of directors, succession, human resources, and strategic process. This argument allows us to conceive three ideal types of family firms that yield maximum family firm performance, by considering the way that family firms adjust their orientations in their decisions. Building on a sample of 732 privately owned Spanish family firms, we propose the following main hypothesis: the greater the similarity of a family firm to an ideal profile, the better its performance. Our main results show that family firms can achieve successful business results by using a combination of family and business orientations in their decision making. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM): A useful tool for family business researchersMarko Sarstedt | Christian M. Ringle | Donna Smith | Russell Reams | Joseph F. Hair
Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2014, Pages 105-115
Structural equation modeling (SEM) has become a mainstream method in many fields of business research, but its use in family business research remains in its infancy. This lag in SEM's application holds especially true for partial least squares SEM (PLS-SEM), an alternative to covariance-based SEM, which provides researchers with more flexibility in terms of data requirements, model complexity and relationship specification. This article draws attention to PLS-SEM as an opportunity to advance the development and testing of theory in family business research by providing a non-technical introduction into the basic concepts and issues of PLS-SEM, bearing the needs of potential users in mind. To this end, a systematic procedure for PLS-SEM results evaluation is presented and applied to an annotated example. The article also illustrates the analysis of mediating effects, which researchers are increasingly testing in their models. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
The relationship among family business, corporate governance and firm performance: Evidence from the Mexican stock exchangeJ. M. San Martin-Reyna | Jorge A. Duran-Encalada
Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 106-117
This study aims to examine whether there are differences in performance between family and non-family firms, taking into account the peculiarities of the Mexican corporate governance system. We propose an analysis that allows us to conduct a comprehensive study and comparison between companies with different (i.e., family vs. non-family) ownership structures, distinguished by developed patterns of governance with heterogeneous characteristics. We also analyze the effects on firm performance depending on the degree of ownership concentration. We find that family firms adopt substantially different corporate governance structures to non-family firms. There is some evidence to suggest that these differentials ultimately impact upon firm performance. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
The case study method in family business research: Guidelines for qualitative scholarshipAlfredo De Massis | Josip Kotlar
Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2014, Pages 15-29
In this article, we provide guidelines that are useful to family business researchers when deciding whether and how to use case studies as well as to reviewers and editors when evaluating case study work. Drawing on examples from our published qualitative research and the complementary insights from other case study work in the field, we offer general suggestions for choosing the case study design, defining the unit of analysis, selecting cases (sampling), collecting information, analysing information, presenting results and ensuring validity and reliability in research findings. By outlining the most important and distinctive challenges faced by qualitative researchers of family business and establishing the relevance and usefulness of the case study method for generating new and valuable insights into family businesses, this article attempts to move the family business field beyond its current state, encourages scholars to engage in the case study method in high-quality family business research, and suggests important implications for scholars, reviewers and editors of case studies in the family business field. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
Affective commitment and job satisfaction among non-family employees: Investigating the roles of justice perceptions and psychological ownershipPhilipp Sieger | Fabian Bernhard | Urs Frey
Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2011, Pages 78-89
Due to numerous characteristics often attributed to family firms, they constitute a unique context for non-family employees' justice perceptions. These are linked to non-family employees' pro-organizational attitudes and behaviors, which are essential for family firms' success. Even though scholarly interest in non-family employees' justice perceptions has increased, more research is still needed, also because the mechanism connecting justice perceptions and favorable outcomes is not fully understood yet. We address this gap by explicitly investigating non-family employees' justice perceptions and by introducing psychological ownership as a mediator in the relationships between justice perceptions (distributive and procedural) and common work attitudes (affective commitment and job satisfaction). Our analysis of a sample of 310 non-family employees from Germany and German-speaking Switzerland reveals that psychological ownership mediates the relationships between distributive justice and affective commitment as well as job satisfaction. This represents valuable contributions to family business research, organizational justice and psychological ownership literature, and to practice. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Board characteristics and firm performance in public founder- and nonfounder-led family businessesRebeca García-Ramos | Myriam García-Olalla
Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 220-231
In this study, we examine whether the presence of a founder influences the relationship between the board of directors' characteristics and company performance in a sample of European, publicly traded, family firms. Our findings contradict the widespread belief that smaller and more independent boards as well as nondual leadership structures always lead to better firm performance, suggesting that agency theory is limited in its explanation of the relationship between board characteristics and firm performance. We find a positive effect of board size on business performance in nonfounder-led family firms and a negative effect of board size on founder-led family businesses. The presence of independent directors on the board has a positive effect on performance when a firm is run by its founder. However, when descendants lead the firm, the presence of independent directors has a negative effect on performance. Although the effect of board meetings on firm performance is positive, this relationship is weaker when the family business is run by its founder. Finally, CEO duality improves firm performance when descendants run the business, although CEO duality has no effect on performance when the firm is led by the founder. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
The family's effect on family firm performance: A model testing the demographic and essence approachesRodrigo Basco
Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 42-66
The demographic and essence approaches have emerged as two separate streams to tackle the issue of how the family affects family firm performance. However, this debate is still open. After analyzing 80 published articles from 2007 to 2011, I conclude that the contradictions between these two approaches come from implicit assumptions that are not modeled when each approach is tested individually. Therefore, the aim of this article is to put the demographic and essence approaches to the test. To reach this objective, I developed a theoretical framework to analyze the relationship between family management involvement, family-oriented strategic decision making, and family firm performance. I conclude that contradictory conclusions may result from each model whether they are tested separately or together. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Exploring the effect of distinct family firm reputation on consumers' preferencesClaudia Binz | Joseph F. Hair | Torsten M. Pieper | Artur Baldauf
Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 3-11
Are family-owned companies perceived more positively by consumers than their non-family analogues, as has been proposed by family business scholars? A multiplicity of anecdotal clues as well as theory and some empirical evidence support the proposition that family firms enjoy a consumer-based reputational advantage over non-family firms. However, it has not yet been empirically shown that this presumed superior reputation effectively positively affects consumer's product and service preferences. In this research, we investigate consumer's distinct perceptions of family firms as a class of economic actors, and their preference for or indifference towards the services or products offered by family firms as compared to those of non-family businesses. Using covariance-based structural equation modeling on a sample of 253 Swiss consumers, we find that promoting a company's status as a family firm strengthens consumers' preference for the products and services offered by family firms, mainly because of the relational qualities consumers associate with family-owned companies. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Entrepreneurial orientation of family firms: Family and environmental dimensionsJosé C. Casillas | Ana M. Moreno | José L. Barbero
Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2011, Pages 90-100
This work analyzes the influence of three characteristics of family firms (generational level, non-family involvement in management and the next generation's involvement in the business) on their entrepreneurial orientation and the role of environmental dynamism and hostility as moderator variables in that relationship. The empirical investigation is based on a sample of 317 family firms in Andalucía (Spain). The results show that environmental dynamism has a significant moderating impact on the relationship between the next generation's involvement and entrepreneurial orientation. Environmental hostility also exerts a positive influence on risk-taking but a negative one on proactiveness. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
The determinants of family firms' subcontracting: A transaction cost perspectiveEsra Memili | James J. Chrisman | Jess H. Chua | Erick P C Chang | Franz W. Kellermanns
Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2011, Pages 26-33
In this article we compare the governance choices of family and non-family firms regarding their subcontracting tendencies. Based on transaction cost theory, we argue that family firms are less likely to engage in subcontracting than non-family firms and that kinship ties, the extent to which a family firm's production activities are important, and cost minimization concerns influence the extent to which family firms utilize subcontractors. Using a sample of small, established firms, we find support for our hypotheses as well as for the use of transaction cost theory logic to explain family firm behavior. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Familiness and market orientation: A stakeholder approachM. Katiuska Cabrera-Suárez | M. De la Cruz Déniz-Déniz | Josefa D. Martín-Santana
Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2011, Pages 34-42
The basic premise of this article is that the social capital elements of familiness give family firms greater potential for developing a market orientation through three basic elements: the adoption of a stewardship orientation, the development of specific capacities for knowledge management, and the development of a family based brand identity. The literature on market orientation, resource-based view, stakeholder theory and family firms is used to develop a model of market orientation in family firms. The model incorporates the specific features of familiness that influence the cultural and behavioral foundations of market orientation and mediate the relationship between these foundations and the results for the organization. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Dispersion of family ownership and the performance of small-to-medium size private family firmsAlfredo De Massis | Josip Kotlar | Giovanna Campopiano | Lucio Cassia
Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 166-175
In this study we investigate how the dispersion of family ownership among family members affects the performance of small-to-medium-size family firms. Based on agency theory and prior research on family firms, we develop arguments pointing to the existence of a U-shaped relationship between the degree of family ownership dispersion and firm performance. We also consider the involvement of family members in top management as a moderating factor of this relationship. The empirical analyses conducted on 494 small-to-medium size private family firms in Italy support our hypotheses and offer further evidence about curvilinear relationships between family ownership and family involvement in management, and performance. Overall, our study represents a theoretical synthesis and extension of the effects of family involvement on the performance of small-to-medium size private firms. It adds empirical evidence to this stream of research, offers new insights into the sources of heterogeneity among the population of family firms, and paves the way for future investigations on other organizational outcomes, especially firm growth, in family firms. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Large shareholders' combinations in family firms: Prevalence and performance effectsMaría Sacristán-Navarro | Silvia Gómez-Ansón | Laura Cabeza-García
Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2011, Pages 101-112
When families are large firm's owners, different shareholders' combinations may appear. This paper describes Spanish family firms' shareholder structures and explains which first-second largest shareholders' combinations are most common. The paper shows that the most common combination within our sample is families and individuals as first shareholders plus families and individuals as second largest shareholders, but that other combinations also exist: families and individuals plus banks, families and individuals and non-financial firms and even two non-financial firms as largest shareholders. In addition, the paper analyzes the impact of different shareholders' combinations on firm performance. The results do not support that any shareholders' combination influences significantly family firm performance. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Firm family firms: Current debates of corporate governance in family firmsRuth V. Aguilera | Rafel Crespi-Cladera
Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 66-69
We reassess the effects of family ownership and strong family control on non-family minority and non-controlling shareholders. We argue that assumptions and interpretations regarding the cost and benefits of family ownership in the extant literature need to be understood relative to other firm governance arrangements. More specifically, we posit and examine the relevance of the private benefits of family control in two key circumstances: top executive succession and the nature of family business groups. Diverse outcomes are shown to be contingent on the national institutional settings where firms are located. © 2012.
Human capital in family businesses: Focusing on the individual levelAlexandra Dawson
Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 3-11
This article focuses on the construct of human capital in family businesses. It makes three key contributions. First, it furthers our understanding of human capital in family businesses by identifying the underlying dimensions of human capital, involving not only knowledge, skills and abilities but also individual attitudes and motivation. Second, the article puts forward the conditions under which family businesses can achieve and sustain over time an alignment of interests between individual human capital and organizational goals. These conditions will vary depending on whether the external environment is static or dynamic. Third, the article heeds the call, shared by strategic management scholars, to focus on the individual level as well as on the (predominant) group- and organizational-level constructs. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
The prospects for family business in research universitiesAlex Stewart | Anne S. Miner
Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2011, Pages 3-14
Family business shows the promise of becoming a respected scholarly field in research universities. However, success is not a given. We inquire about its prospects, with reference to the sociology of science. A key requirement for success that has been met is identification with an important and distinctive domain of inquiry. This domain is at the intersection two phenomena - of kinship and business - but more attention has been paid to enterprise than to kinship. We suggest that this creates important windows for theoretical development, an important requirement for a core presence in research universities. We further suggest additional priorities, such as progress in journal and research quality, more developed links to pressing social issues such as international business, inclusion of family business issues in the credit curriculum, and faculty lines that create research continuity and legitimize research on family business. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Building a family firm image: How family firms capitalize on their family tiesThomas M. Zellweger | Franz W. Kellermanns | Kimberly A. Eddleston | Esra Memili
Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 239-250
We apply organizational identity theory to examine factors that lead family firms to create a family firm image and investigate how a family firm image impacts firm performance. We find that family firm pride, community social ties, and long-term orientation are positively associated with the inclination of a firm to portray itself as a family business to consumers and stakeholders. In turn, we find that a family firm image benefits firm performance. Thus, our study demonstrates that by building a family firm image, the unique family influences on the firm can be leveraged to create a competitive advantage for family firms. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Understanding entrepreneurial cultures in family businesses: A study of family entrepreneurial teams in HondurasAllan Discua Cruz | Eleanor Hamilton | Sarah L. Jack
Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 147-161
This study contributes to our understanding about entrepreneurial cultures in family businesses. Previous family business literature highlights that entrepreneurial cultures reside within a founding or incumbent generation. The identification and pursuit of opportunities leading to establishing or acquiring ventures revolves around a founder-centered culture. This view overlooks the way opportunity identification and pursuit become part of the culture in family firms. Interpretive methods were used to analyze six family business groups in Honduras. The unit of analysis is the family entrepreneurial team (FET), members of the family behind entrepreneurial processes. By focusing on the family entrepreneurial team this study shows that entrepreneurial cultures are transmitted via long intergenerational interaction and continued via involvement of junior generations in the identification and pursuit of opportunities. We argue that further attention to the family unit and alternative contexts extends our understanding of entrepreneurial cultures in family businesses. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Crossroads of family business research and firm demography-A critical assessment of family business survival ratesIsabell Stamm | Christina Lubinski
Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2011, Pages 117-127
Do family firms rise and decline in three generations? Not only since Thomas Mann's "The Buddenbrooks" has the survival rate of family firms intrigued family business scholars, practitioners and consultants. In this article, we trace the family firm survival rate to its roots and discuss its empirical basis and univocal reading. We then ask how the mortality of family businesses could be measured, and which contextual factors need to be taken into account. To this end we explore the literature on firm demography, a field which is particularly concerned with age and mortality, and identify crossroads with family business studies. We conclude by suggesting a re-conceptualization of survival rates within a larger firm demographic research framework. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
A set-theoretic analysis of the components of family involvement in publicly listed and major unlisted firmsRoberto Garcia-Castro | M. José Casasola
Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2011, Pages 15-25
Family firms can be thought of as heterogeneous configurations where ownership, governance, management and succession components are often intertwined. Previous works have typically used definitions of family firm based on one or more of these components. In this empirical work we seek to clarify the relationships among the components of family involvement in family firms by using a set-theoretic methodology (fs/QCA). Applying this methodology to a sample of 6611 publicly listed and major unlisted companies from 46 countries, we identified the most frequent configurations of family firms based on the components of family involvement. We present the most frequent configurations and discuss implications for empirical research and theory building on family firms. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Strategy, ownership, governance, and socio-psychological perspectives on family businesses from around the worldSanjay Goel | Pietro Mazzola | Phillip H. Phan | Torsten M. Pieper | Ramona K. Zachary
Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 54-65
This prologue to the special issue documents and discusses the current family business research literature on strategy, ownership, governance and the socio-psychological dimension. The articles in this special issue represent theoretical and empirical research using micro and macro databases with various methodologies, including case studies and multivariate analyses. In particular, the ownership and governance literature relative to family businesses is critically reviewed, and traditional perspectives are challenged by leading scholars. Each of five competitive research articles is contextualised relative to the extant literature, and the contributions of each article are duly noted and discussed. Possible future research directions are suggested, 13 research propositions are identified, and future research needs are delineated. Finally, researchers are challenged to (a) question the extant business research in general, (b) broaden their research perspectives to both the family system and the business system, and (c) begin dialogue with scholars in related and relevant disciplines. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
The impact of a service-dominant focus strategy and stewardship culture on organizational innovativeness in family-owned businessesClay Dibrell | Miriam Moeller
Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2011, Pages 43-51
Drawing from service-dominant logic and stewardship theory, we examine the extent to which both family- and non-family businesses integrate their customers into their strategic orientation and attempt to satisfy them through increasing innovativeness, while integrating stewardship cultural behaviors in their customer service processes. Through use of primary data, we analyze 206 family- and 101 non-family-owned businesses. Our results indicate that family-owned businesses have a strong service-dominant focus and are more capable of incorporating stewardship cultural behaviors in their customer service processes resulting in increased organizational innovativeness compared to their non-family competitors. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.


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William Griffin Gallery is pleased to announce Exploded Moment\ , its ninth exhibition by Liza Ryan. In the last several years\, Ryan's work has moved beyond photography in its traditional sense. By cutting\, c ollage\, and drawing on her photographs\, she expands the possibilities of the photographic image.\n
In her latest body of work\, Ryan explores how heightened awareness can transform our idea of "reality". Ryan often uses her camera like a microscope and crystallizes seconds that would normally go unobserved. These "small" occurrences can be too fleeting to rise from the morass of visual information surrounding them. Exploded Moment\, the piece from which the series and the exhibition draw their name\, is pieced together out of strips cut from photographs. It appears abstract at first\, but upon close inspection\, representational details emerge. The piece is scaled to the height of Ryan's car window but stretches far b eyond its width. The experience of driving fast and being bombarded with v isual stimuli—none of which is clearly visible at the time—simulates in mi niature the experience of our fast-paced lives.\n
A recurrent theme throu ghout the Exploded Moment series is light. The power of light to i lluminate and/or obliterate information\, and the seductiveness of both\, interests Ryan. In Six Suns (pictured)\, images of the sun are clo sely cropped to leave only a brilliant core of white light surrounded by a fringe of colored information. These works become an evocative metaphor for the erasure or blindness that occurs when overwhelmed by visual stimul i. Like many of the works in the show\, the images in Six Suns occupy the border between representation and abstraction.\n
Ryan was recently the su bject of a solo exhibition at Reed College's Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Ar t Gallery in Portland\, Oregon. A catalog was published in conjunction wit h the exhibition. Several of Ryan's works were also included in State of M ind\, a group exhibition at the Museum of Photographic Arts\, San Diego. S he has also been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Herter Gallery at the University of Massachusetts and the Hollins University Art Gallery in Virginia. In 2009\, The J. Paul Getty Museum acquired a thirty-foot long m ulti-paneled photographic work by Ryan through a gift from Manfred and Han na Heiting. Ryan's work is also held in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Ar t\; the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\; and the Maison Européen de la Phot ographie\, Paris\, among others. She lives and works in Los Angeles.DTEND:20101106 DTSTAMP:20160930T231438 DTSTART:20100910 GEO:34.053214;-118.3437887 LOCATION:Kayne Griffin Corcoran\,1201 South La Brea Avenue \nLos Angeles \, CA 90019 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Liza Ryan: "Exploded Moment"\, Liza Ryan UID:123815 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND:20100910T210000 DTSTAMP:20160930T231438 DTSTART:20100910T190000 GEO:34.053214;-118.3437887 LOCATION:Kayne Griffin Corcoran\,1201 South La Brea Avenue \nLos Angeles \, CA 90019 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Liza Ryan: "Exploded Moment"\, Liza Ryan UID:123816 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR


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Saturday 21 January 2012
Danielle Hope, the winner of Andrew Lloyd Webber's show Over the Rainbow will make her final appearance as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz currently playing at the London Palladium Theatre since 1st March 2011. It is booking until 28th October 2012. Michael Crawford will also take his last bow on 5th February as the Wizard.
Taking over the role of Dorothy is Sophie Evans (pictured), who was the runner up in the tv competition show. She has already been performing reguarly on Tuesday evenings and during Hope's holidays. She starts full time on 7th February.
It hasn't been confirmed who will be replacing Michael Crawford as the Wizard.
The Wizard of Oz is currently nominated in four categories at this year's Whatsonstage.com Awards, including Best Musical Revival and Best Set Designer. Hannah Waddingham, who originated the role of the Wicked Witch of the West at the Palladium is nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical whilst Danielle Hope is nominated in the London Newcomer of the Year category.
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Reporter Rachel Dubrovin explains why fraternities will soon have to choose between housing freshmen, and allowing alcohol in the house.
"We've made a very small, but we hope impactful change for students," said WSU Dean of Students, Melynda Husky. "Starting with fall of next year, all fraternities that choose to house first year students will need to be alcohol free."
Last week, Washington State University President Elson Floyd sent out a letter to the Greek community announcing that fraternities with freshmen will soon have to be dry.
"When groups of young men are together, their capacity to make good decisions tends to diminish," said Huskey. "So we're looking at all the places where young men congregate in groups and hope to impact their decision making."
WSU Dean of Students Melynda Husky said it's about keeping Cougs safe, and the university's Interfraternity Council supports that decision.
"We are all Cougs, so we are all working towards that same goal," said WSU Interfraternity Council Public Relations Director Cory Hudson Jr.
While there are benefits to alcohol-free frats
"You're going to have the ability to make the chapter house a privilege to live in, because they will be cleaner," said Hudson.
We found some WSU fraternity members that aren't pleased with the policy change.
"It's just unnecessary, more or less," said WSU Student Bryce Dugger. "And decisions are being made without us, without any kind of appeal. You can't change it, you kind of just have to deal with it. And we're just, we're honestly getting screwed. I don't like it at all."
Students we spoke with said choosing between housing freshmen and allowing alcohol will be a dilemma.
"It's about money for them," said WSU Student, Logan Pillings. "If they don't have freshmen living in, who are they going to have live in? Seniors? Seniors don't want to live in."
"I'm a freshman and I just moved into my fraternity, and just from my own experience, I've gotten a lot closer with the guys in my house, learned a lot more about my house," said WSU Student Jared Schneider. "So I think it'd really be taking away from tradition if it was to come onto act. It's going to be really interesting to see how most fraternities react."
Fraternities will need to decide whether or not to go dry by the time they start recruiting freshmen this summer. This policy change does not affect the sororities because those houses are already alcohol-free.


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Terminals at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, India's biggest container gateway, have come under fire from customs authorities for collecting "unauthorized" charges from shippers.
Amazon has had to pay a fine for breaching lithium ion shipment rules.
US importers stand to see faster clearance of their containers as Customs and Border Protection expands a pilot providing pre-clearance of shipments from four ports to every port in the country.
A heavyweight fight is shaping up in the Texas Legislature over proposals to allow trucks to carry heavier loads over the state's highways.
Russia's competition watchdog will split the denomination of tariffs for stevedoring into the local ruble and the US dollar.
The US Department of Transportation laid down guidelines this week for manufacturers of automated vehicles that provide a clearer path forward for autonomous trucks.
The US Federal Maritime Commission has had some success in helping cargo interests minimize costs and retrieve cargo stranded by Hanjin Shipping's bankruptcy.
Although the rate of decline in Russia's container trade slows, a dispute over pricing for container-handling services is clouding the medium- and long-term outlook for the trade.
The US Senate voted Wednesday to end debate on the Water Resources Development Act, setting up final passage for the legislation.
A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday denied a motion by several fuel and towing companies to lift the prohibition on them seizing ships operated by Hanjin Shipping.


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#69 - wegotabadasshere> "If everyone knows why isn't it public?"
> MFW wat
Reply +29(09/30/2012) [-]
> MFW wat
#109 to #69 - makethingsworse (09/30/2012) [-]
You should make that gif so that Superman slowly goes down on Batman. Yes...this must be done.
#61 - tehbesteverDat logic.
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#60 - piclemaniscool
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This is why I like Luthor (or at least this rendition of him, like Supermn:TAS). He doesn't just want to kill superman, that would lead to a hero's grave. He wants to ruin him. Ruin superman the way superman ruined Luthor, since when he stopped major crimes, they were almost always king-pinned by Lex. It's a dream we both share, Luthor and I, a simple dream: to be remembered. After 100 years, how mny of us will be remembered for our actions? After 1000 years how many of our names will still be recognized by the general public? President of a country is pretty good, right? But how many of us can name the 25th president off the top of our heads? It is even less likely to know what they were remembered for. Luthor knows how to be remembered. He knows that only the absolute best and the absolute worst are remembered for so long. And you know what happened? Out of ******* nowhere, this prick superman comes in and demolishes Luthor's chances at becoming one of the greats. So he did some shady stuff, who in his position hasn't? All he did was make things worse. At least Luthor's "crime" was organized. Now? Chaos. Well superman cut Luthor's chances at being the good guy, but not only that. He's REPLACING him. **** that, if Luthor is going down, he's taking superman down with him.
tl;dr Luthor did nothing wrong, and Superman: The Animated Series should e watched by every single child in the world.
Also, why the **** does superman still need to be Clark? Does he not have enough money to keep his crystal fortress in the ******* north pole?
tl;dr Luthor did nothing wrong, and Superman: The Animated Series should e watched by every single child in the world.
Also, why the **** does superman still need to be Clark? Does he not have enough money to keep his crystal fortress in the ******* north pole?
#64 to #60 - wherestheknech (09/30/2012) [-]
Hitler did nothing wrong either.
#65 to #64 - piclemaniscool (09/30/2012) [-]
And you can bet your sweet ass He'll be remembered just as vividly in 1000 years.
#66 to #65 - piclemaniscool (09/30/2012) [-]
unnecessary capitalizaion... I don't even know. Is 2:00 am too late to reply to omments? I think so.
#68 to #66 - wherestheknech (09/30/2012) [-]
More than likely, its 2:20 here, est?
#67 to #66 - piclemaniscool (09/30/2012) [-]
okthat's it. goodnight everyone.
okthat's it. goodnight everyone.
#59 - Warzonebeta
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#53 - creosoteSound logic until you realize that once they know who he is, all they have to do is find his address, wait until he's sleeping, and than stab him in the face with kryptonite.
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#62 to #53 - antisocialtwilight
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1.) Kryptonite isn't like common graphite that you can just find laying around on the ground
2.) Superman has Super-hearing, so he would hear you sneaking around. Then, he could just throw his bed at you.
3.)The more logical thing to do would be to kill his parents, pin it on someone innocent, and send him into a bloodrage, where he would kill that person and look evil, which would scar Superman for life.
2.) Superman has Super-hearing, so he would hear you sneaking around. Then, he could just throw his bed at you.
3.)The more logical thing to do would be to kill his parents, pin it on someone innocent, and send him into a bloodrage, where he would kill that person and look evil, which would scar Superman for life.
#102 to #62 - darknesincontrol (09/30/2012) [-]
#43 - sonicserver (09/30/2012) [-]
**sonicserver rolled a random image posted in comment #11 at If only ** my pajamas
#40 - falloutfanatic (09/30/2012) [-]**falloutfanatic rolled a random image posted in comment #516 at Choose wisely ** luthers got a point
#38 - notafunnyguy (09/30/2012) [-]
they keep their identity secret so villains dont kidnap/kill/harm family or friends
#37 - paperxgangsta (09/30/2012) [-]
Wow! This seems legit!
#52 to #37 - seniorawesomesauce (09/30/2012) [-]
#31 - creighton
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#28 - itsmepapaone
Reply +8(09/30/2012) [-]
Maybe. When Goku's in the human world he can be pierced by needles. When he's fighting he can block swords with his fingers.
#127 to #56 - jdsalenger (09/30/2012) [-]
#33 to #28 - trimageryan (09/30/2012) [-]
I think that's more of a willed response though. He allows the needle (Sort of) to poke through him by remaining at a very very low power level.
#24 - animatedrouge
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#19 - zeustesticle (09/30/2012) [-]
You know what doesn't make sense why doesn't superman go "**** the legal system" and ******* just destroy lex luther.
#25 to #19 - captnpl (09/30/2012) [-]
Because that^
Because that^
#48 to #25 - flyingflufferflow (09/30/2012) [-]
as soon as lex said "...politics" in part 3 i ******* lost it. thanks for sharing that man
#30 to #25 - zeustesticle (09/30/2012) [-]
thats a load of ****.
#46 to #20 - CrashingSea (09/30/2012) [-]
If he can control himself for several years as superman I'm sure he could control himself if he killed a jackass, that's always doing evil ****, for the good of humanity... Superman's powers and ideas have become *********...
#21 to #20 - zeustesticle (09/30/2012) [-]
Yeah well maybe if superman was a little less jesus christ, and a little more dexter morgan the world would be a better place.
#32 to #27 - zeustesticle (09/30/2012) [-]
I feel like there could be some sort of middle ground.
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