SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report
Sections
Status: Approved
Basic Information
- Project No. and Title: NE167 : Family Business Viability in Economically Vulnerable Communities
- Period Covered: 01/01/2003 to 12/01/2003
- Date of Report: 12/16/2003
- Annual Meeting Dates: 10/19/2003 to 10/21/2003
Participants
*Sharon Danes, University of Minnesota; *Margaret Fitzgerald, North Dakota State University; Grace Fong, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Karen Goebel, University of Wisconsin; *George Haynes, Montana State University; *Ramona Heck, Baruch College; University of Illinois; *Cynthia Jasper, University of Wisconsin; *Yoon Lee, Utah State University; *Diane Masuo, University of Hawaii at Manoa; *Glenn Muske, Oklahoma State University; Linda Niehm, Iowa State University; Kay Obendorf, Cornell University, Administrative Advisor; Alma Owen, Guest; Edward Rogoff, Baruch College; *Holly Schrank, The Purdue University; Myung SooLee, Baruch College; *Kathryn Stafford, The Ohio State University; *Margaret Whan, University of Arkansas; *Mary Winter, Iowa State University; John Yanagida, University of Hawaii at Manoa; * = State Project Leader. Others are additional researchers.
Project Continuation
The NE-167 project was granted a 1-year extension through September 30, 2005. Options after that date are: (1) continue to meet for 1 more year as an NCT (North Central Technical Committee) proposal writing committee or (2) create a new North Central (NC) project. New proposal ideas were generated. Holly and Ramona were designated to write the proposal for NCT status if it will be submitted for the January 2004 meeting of the North Central Administrators 5 group (NCA-5).
Monograph Distribution
The monograph from the Spring 2003 home-based entrepreneurs conference at Baruch College will be mailed to contributors by the end of December 2003.
Second Monograph
Ramona Heck (NY) asked if the NE-167 members would be interested in working on a second monograph. This publication would focus on the larger group of businesses (n=673), but also include tools. No decision was made on this matter at this time.
Status of Minority Business Survey
Data collection from the African American sample has been completed. Work is ongoing with interviews of the Korean sample. Baruch College received funding from the Kaufmann Foundation for these surveys.
Fall 2004 Conference at Baruch College
This conference will focus on female entrepreneurs.
Online Publications
Grace Fong and Diane Masuo (HI) suggested that the NE-167 group consider translating the 2003 Baruch Conference chapters and their accompanying tools into lay terms and in an online format. They shared the web site for a sample article and its accompanying tool.
www2.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/ET-5.pdf (article) www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/sp-web/estimator/ (the tool)
Contents of State Reports
NE-167 members agreed that "works-in-progress", non-archival presentations and "in-press" works should be included in state reports. A suggestion was made that for next year, members delineate accomplishments from impacts in their reports to facilitate compilation of the NE-167 Annual Report. State reports are to be posted to the NE-167 Listserve prior to the annual meeting.
Website Postings
Yoon Lee (UT) asked that abstracts from publications and presentations from 1997 through 2003 be sent to her for review and then later posting by Gret to the NE-167 website. Abstracts should be submitted prior to the annual meeting when state reports are prepared.
Declarations Procedure
Declarations are to be posted to the NE-167 Listserve. Approval is assumed, if after 30 days, if no objections are raised. The declarations process is outlined in the Policy Handbook, section 6a, page 3.
2000 NFBS Panel Data
NE-167 members are encouraged to share syntax for identifying sub samples of the dataset because of unique differences in the naming convention that was used in the 1997 NFBS compared to the 2000 dataset. However, variable numbers are identified in the SPSS-X extended variable name field for the 2000 data.
Mack Shelly, Director of the Research Institute for Studies in Education at Iowa State University presented a session on: techniques in the analysis of longitudinal panel data, and the use of the NE-167 community data in proposed analyses. Besides using examples from the NE-167 1997 and 2000 data in his presentation, Dr. Shelly shared the output from analyses he ran using: a paired t-test, cross tabs, repeated measures anova, cross-lagged correlations, analysis of covariance, and multivariate analysis of covariance, and the syntax for the HLM5 programs hierarchical linear and nonlinear modeling procedure.
Accomplishment of Project Objectives
NE-167 researchers completed an inventory of accomplishments relative to the project objectives. A methodology paper that uses both the 1997 and 2000 data is forthcoming in the Journal of Business Venturing, however, the team noted that more work needs to be done to compare outcomes over time (1997 to 2000).
The economic vulnerability subgroup has been working on an objective and a subjective measure that can be used to differentiate vulnerable from non-vulnerable communities. George Haynes (MT) described the process that was used to develop the objective measure. The "socio-economic vulnerability index" is a scale that consists of 29 variables obtained from internal (from 1997 and 2000 NFBS data) and external data sources. A methodology paper is being developed to explain the vulnerability index.
Margaret Fitzgerald (ND) shared initial factor analyses results that are being used to develop the subjective community measure. Work on a subjective scale is being completed and will be reported in a conceptual paper.
Dr. Cornelia Butler Flora, Director of the North Central Regional Rural Development Center reviewed the NE-167 committee‘s work. She encouraged timely completion of a methods article on the "socio-economic vulnerability index" and offered to assist with the marketing of this work.
Bibliographic Compendium of NE-167 Output
Holly Schrank (IN) reported that the bibliography is updated as of April 2003. Citations are based on a review print of versions of all publications. An updated bibliography will be sent through the Listserve, as members update their output in their state reports.
Election of New Chair
Glenn Muske (OK) and Diane Masuo‘s (HI) terms as Co-Chairs of the technical committee end with their submission of this year‘s Annual Report. They were re-elected for an additional year, through September 30, 2004.
Mid-Year Meeting
The next meeting was scheduled for May 22-24, 2004 in Columbus, Ohio. The purpose of this mid-year meeting is to complete the project objectives and to work on a proposal requesting NCT status or to work on a new project proposal.
Accomplishments
The NE-167 researchers recognize that a more complete measure of community vulnerability requires both objective and subjective measurements. Therefore, a complementary subjective vulnerability scale is being developed from community indicators in the 2000 panel dataset. Pilot testing of this scale will occur during the next project year.
Dissemination of research findings is another major contribution of this research project. NE-167 researchers, in collaboration with the Lawrence Field Center for Entrepreneurship and Small Business at Baruch College, New York, presented a "Spring 2003 Conference, A Tool Kit for Home-based Entrepreneurs and Family Business Owners." This effort resulted in a monograph consisting of 15 chapters, 6 of which were presented at the conference to business owners and counseling staff at the Field Center.
In addition to work on home-based family businesses, researchers disseminated findings from other subgroups of family businesses through 7 articles in refereed journals, 3 abstracts, 2 Internet articles, 2 proceedings articles, and 1 newsletter article. The publication venues included business and financial management journals. Conference presentations were made in the U.S. and in Europe. Several states conducted related family business research in their respective states. In one of the member states, the 1997 NFBS was replicated to provide state level family business data. In another state, senior business leaders from the 1997 NFBS were studied.
Impacts
- Using good business practices, setting standards of performance for family members working in the business, and increasing satisfaction levels in the household and the business are strategies that are related to business success
- Family business success is related to maintaining boundaries between family roles versus family business roles
- Businesses with cash flow problems had higher liabilities, were more likely to be located in rural counties and were more likely to use business real estate to secure family loans
- The household is at greater risk than the business because the greatest financial intermingling occurs from the household to the business
- Over the three year period (1997 to 2000), satisfaction with work situation and business management practices affected business success and goal achievement
Publications
Danes, S.M. & Olson, P.D. (2003). Womens role involvement in family businesses, business tensions, and business success. Family Business Review, 16 (1), 53-68.
Danes, S.M. (2003). Conflict identification: Tensions generated by home-based business issues. In R.K.Z. Heck, A. N. Puryear, & P. A. Tombline, (Eds.). (2003). Home-based entrepreneurs conference proceedings; A toolkit for home-based entrepreneurs (pp. 15-27). NY, NY: Baruch College, Lawrence N. Field Center of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.
Duncan, K.A., Stafford, K., & Zuiker, V.S. (2003). Household management: Managing home and family in home-based business. In R.K.Z. Heck, A. N. Puryear, & P. A. Tombline, (Eds.). (2003). Home-based entrepreneurs conference proceedings; A toolkit for home-based entrepreneurs (pp. 42-53). NY, NY: Baruch College, Lawrence N. Field Center of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.
Fitzgerald, M.A., Muske, G., & Philbrick, C.A. (2003). Business integrity: Relationships in the work-place environment of home-based businesses. In R.K.Z. Heck, A. N. Puryear, & P. A. Tombline, (Eds.). (2003). Home-based entrepreneurs conference proceedings; A toolkit for home-based entrepreneurs (pp. 79-90). NY, NY: Baruch College, Lawrence N. Field Center of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.
Fitzgerald, M.A., Heck, R.K.Z., & Masuo, D.M. (2003). The 1997-2000 national family business surveys: An examination of U. S. family firms. Proceedings from the International Family Enterprise Research Academy annual conference.
Fong, G., Masuo, D., & Yanagida, J. (2002). A comparison of single manager and dual manager family business households, their businesses, and changes in their characteristics between 1997 and 2000. {Abstract} In J. Lown (Ed.). Papers of the 42nd annual conference of the Western Region Home Management Family Economics Educators, 17, pp. 42-43. (Based on a refereed poster by G. Fong at the Western Region Home Management Family Economics Educators conference, Spokane, Washington, October 19-21)
Fredricks, K. & Winter, M. (2003). A profile of home-based entrepreneurs. In R.K.Z. Heck, A. N. Puryear, & P. A. Tombline, (Eds.). (2003). Home-based entrepreneurs conference proceedings; A toolkit for home-based entrepreneurs (pp. xxiii-xxxi). NY, NY: Baruch College, Lawrence N. Field Center of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.
Heck, R.K.Z. (2003). Stress scale: Effects of life events on home-based businesses and their families. In R.K.Z. Heck, A. N. Puryear, & P. A. Tombline, (Eds.). (2003). Home-based entrepreneurs conference proceedings; A toolkit for home-based entrepreneurs (pp. 140-151). NY, NY: Baruch College, Lawrence N. Field Center of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.
Heck, R.K.Z., Fitzgerald, M.A., & Masuo, D.M. (2003). The 1997-2000 national family business surveys: An examination of U.S. family firms. International Family Enterprise Research Academy annual conference, Milan, Italy.
Jasper, C.R., Goebel, K.P. and Lee, Y.G. (2003). Business issues: Identification & retirement planning/succession. In R.K.Z. Heck, A. N. Puryear, & P. A. Tombline, (Eds.). (2003). Home-based entrepreneurs conference proceedings; A toolkit for home-based entrepreneurs. NY, NY: Baruch College, Lawrence N. Field Center of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.
Lee, Y.G., Jasper, C.R., and Goebel, K.P. (2003). A profile of succession planning among family business owners. Financial counseling and planning, 14(2).
Masuo, D., Fong, G., & Yanagida, J. (2003). Business and family outcomes. In R.K.Z. Heck, A. N. Puryear, & P. A. Tombline, (Eds.). (2003). Home-based entrepreneurs conference proceedings; A toolkit for home-based entrepreneurs (pp. 116-127). NY, NY: Baruch College, Lawrence N. Field Center of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.
Masuo, D., Fong, G., & Yanagida, J. (2003). Factors affecting perceived business and family success. CTAHR Entrepreneurs Toolbox. ET-5. Accompanied by link to success estimator tool. Web only: http://www2.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/ET-5.pdf
Masuo, D., Fong, G., & Yanagida, J. (2003). Family owned businesses in Hawaii-2001: A preliminary report. Prepared for CTAHR and the Family Business Center, University of Hawaii.
Muske, G., Fitzgerald, M.A., & Haynes, G. The intermingling of financial resources among copreneurial couples. United States Association of Family and Consumer Sciences annual conference. El Reno, OK, March, 2003.
Muske, G., & Fitzgerald, M.A. (2003). The intermingling of family and business financial resources in copreneurial couples. 17th Annual United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship annual conference proceedings (CD-ROM), Madison, WI: USASBE, 93.
Muske, G., & Fitzgerald, M.A. (2003). The intermingling of family and business financial resources in copreneurial couples. United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Hilton Head, SC, January 2003.
Muske, G., Fitzgerald, M.A., & Kollmorgen, N. (2003). Business management: How practice affects business and family success in home-based business. In R.K.Z. Heck, A. N. Puryear, & P. A. Tombline, (Eds.). (2003). Home-based entrepreneurs conference proceedings; A toolkit for home-based entrepreneurs (pp. 104-115). NY, NY: Baruch College, Lawrence N. Field Center of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.
Owen, A. and Schrank, H. (2003). Family types. In R.K.Z. Heck, A. N. Puryear, & P. A. Tombline, (Eds.). (2003). Home-based entrepreneurs conference proceedings; A toolkit for home-based entrepreneurs (pp. 54-65). NY, NY: Baruch College, Lawrence N. Field Center of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.
Rogoff, E.G., & Heck, R.K.Z. (2003). Evolving research in entrepreneurship and family business: Recognizing family as the oxygen that feeds the fire of entrepreneurship. [Introductory Editorial Note for Special Issue], Journal of Business Venturing, 18(3), 559-566.
Rogoff, E.G., & Heck, R.K.Z. (Guest Co-Editors). (2003). The evolving family/entrepreneurial business relationship [Special Issue], Journal of Business Venturing, 18(3).
Stafford, K., Duncan, K.A., & Zuiker, V.S. (2003). Family Integrity: Home-based business-owning families. In R.K.Z. Heck, A. N. Puryear, & P. A. Tombline, (Eds.). (2003). Home-based entrepreneurs conference proceedings; A toolkit for home-based entrepreneurs (pp. 128-139). NY, NY: Baruch College, Lawrence N. Field Center of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.
Winter, M. & Fredricks, K. (2003). Adjustment strategies: Sharing human resources for home-based business. In R.K.Z. Heck, A. N. Puryear, & P. A. Tombline, (Eds.). (2003). Home-based entrepreneurs conference proceedings; A toolkit for home-based entrepreneurs (pp. 1-14). NY, NY: Baruch College, Lawrence N. Field Center of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.
Winter, M. (2003). Methodologies of 1997 and 2000 National Family Business Surveys. In R.K.Z. Heck, A. N. Puryear, & P. A. Tombline, (Eds.). (2003). Home-based entrepreneurs conference proceedings; A toolkit for home-based entrepreneurs (pp. 158-166). NY, NY: Baruch College, Lawrence N. Field Center of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.
Zuiker, V.S., Lee, Y.G., Olson, P.D., Danes, S.M., VanGuilder-Dik, A.N., Katras, M.J. (2002 issue; published in 2003). Business, family, and resource intermingling characteristics as predictors of dash flow problems in family-owned businesses. Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 13(2), 65-81.
Objective 3: To estimate the economic and social contributions of family businesses to communities over time.
Olson, P.D., Stafford, K., & Zuiker, V.S. (2003). Professionalizing. In R.K.Z. Heck, A. N. Puryear, & P. A. Tombline, (Eds.). (2003). Home-based entrepreneurs conference proceedings; A toolkit for home-based entrepreneurs (pp. 66-75). NY, NY: Baruch College, Lawrence N. Field Center of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.
Olson, P.D., Zuiker, V.S., Danes, S.M., Stafford, K., Heck, R.K.Z., & Duncan, K. A. (2003). The impact of the family and business on family business sustainability. Journal of Business Venturing, 18(5), 639-666.
Zuiker, V.S., Katras, M.J., Montalto, C.P., Olson, P.D. (2003). Hispanic self-employment: Does gender matter? Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 25(1), 73-94.