• Financing decisions of migrant family businesses: The case of a Ghanaian-owned shop in Kent 

  Boateng, Bernard; Silva, Mauricio; Seaman, Claire (Emerald, 2018-12-05)

  The analysis of new enterprise funding and the financial strategies once in operation has been usually associated to mainstream sources of finance for which there is a standard quantitative method of analysis that relies ...

• Theorising director task performance over time: insights from capture theory 

  Farquhar, Stuart; Machold, Silke; Ahmed, Pervaiz K. (Inderscience, 2014)

  We develop a conceptual framework in which we show how a non-executive director’s task performance may change over their life cycle on the board. We adopt a three-stage process to examine the task performance of a non-executive ...

• Board task evolution: A longitudinal field study in the UK 

  Machold, Silke; Farquhar, Stuart (Wiley, 2013-02-04)

  Research Question/Issue - Several studies have investigated the antecedents of board tasks but there are disagreements about the number of tasks, their content and how they are operationalized. Moreover, the question of ...

• Corporate governance and ethics: a feminist perspective 

  Machold, Silke; Ahmed, Pervaiz K.; Farquhar, Stuart (Springer, 2007-08-04)

  The mainstream literature on corporate governance is based on the premise of conflicts of interest in a competitive game played by variously defined stakeholders and thus builds explicitly and/or implicitly on masculinist ...

• Founders versus descendants: the profitability, growth, and efficiency characteristics comparison in the UK small and medium sized family businesses 

  Wang, Yong; Ahmed, Pervaiz K.; Farquhar, Stuart (Sage Publications, 2007-07-01)

  Family businesses and business families existed long before the genesis of historians and economists. In most economies, family business is estimated to represent over two–thirds of all enterprises and accounts for about ...

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