Alden G Lank
Biographic Data
| ID | 3473358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alden G Lank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alden G |
| FAMILY NAME | Lank |
| SIGNATURE | LANK A G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Epilogue: Enlightened Ownership of Family Enterprises
By now the reader will be aware that both authors are enthusiastic supporters of family enterprises and the role they play in society. This does not mean, however, that we are unaware of their weaknesses — and particularly their poor longevity record, which is in part due to the complexity of managing succession and designing an appropriate governance structure. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experime…
Control as a Key Governance Measure
On Friday, February 24, 1995 at 7:15 in the morning, Peter Baring, the Chairman of the oldest Merchant Bank in the United Kingdom, received a call from Singapore that he had been dreading: a ‘big hole’ in the accounts was confirmed. Just how big was not yet known, but it was clearly greater than the bank’s capital. A ‘rogue’ trader had run up massive losses on unauthorised derivatives dealings in the Far East, which threatened to bring down the b…
Key Elements of a Governance Structure in a Family Business: The Family and its Institutions
The main theme of this book is the governance of family enterprises, corporate governance having been defined in various ways in the previous chapter, including ‘systems and structures to direct, control and account for the corporation as well as securing its economic viability and legitimacy’. The focus of this definition is the company per se , but in family enterprises one is required to examine the role of the owning family in the governance …
Nature and Significance of Family Business
One of the first tasks to confront the serious student of family business, or as some prefer it, ‘family enterprise’, as a field of scholarly inquiry, is to determine what is meant by the term. Researchers from academia and consulting organisations are not the only ones grappling with the definition. Based on the authors’ numerous conversations with journalists pursuing some hot story involving conflict between members of a family who are in busi…
Vision and Strategy as Key Governance Measures in Family Business
Have you ever heard of Joshua Slocum? Probably not. Slocum was the first person to attempt to sail alone around the world. 1 On 24 April 1895, at the age of 51, he set sail from Boston in a boat that was about 12 meters long. Just over three years later, on 27 June 1898, he anchored again off Newport, the first solo sailor to circumnavigate the globe. The money he needed had been earned as he went. These keywords were added by machine and not by …
Key Elements of a Governance Structure in a Family Business: The Board of Directors
In Chapter 3 we indicated that boards typically hold a central position in the corporate governance arena. They indeed represent one of the key elements in a corporate constitution. This is true for family-controlled enterprises as well as for publicly held companies. Because of this pivotal significance, it is necessary to discuss in some depth their specific role, their composition, their working style and the particular problems they may face …
Stages of Evolution of Family Enterprises
Part of the task of Chapter 1 was to grapple with the thorny issue of defining the subject of this book: the family enterprise. When reading the many definitions cited, one is struck by how many seem to convey a static, non-dynamic picture of the family firm. Yet both intuitively and experientially we know that all enterprises, whether or not they are family managed and/or owned, are anything but static. They change, transform, mutate and evolve …
The Family Business: Its Governance for Sustainability
Epilogue: Enlightened Ownership of Family Enterprises
By now the reader will be aware that both authors are enthusiastic supporters of family enterprises and the role they play in society. This does not mean, however, that we are unaware of their weaknesses — and particularly their poor longevity record, which is in part due to the complexity of managing succession and designing an appropriate governance structure. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experime…
Control as a Key Governance Measure
On Friday, February 24, 1995 at 7:15 in the morning, Peter Baring, the Chairman of the oldest Merchant Bank in the United Kingdom, received a call from Singapore that he had been dreading: a ‘big hole’ in the accounts was confirmed. Just how big was not yet known, but it was clearly greater than the bank’s capital. A ‘rogue’ trader had run up massive losses on unauthorised derivatives dealings in the Far East, which threatened to bring down the b…
Key Elements of a Governance Structure in a Family Business: The Family and its Institutions
The main theme of this book is the governance of family enterprises, corporate governance having been defined in various ways in the previous chapter, including ‘systems and structures to direct, control and account for the corporation as well as securing its economic viability and legitimacy’. The focus of this definition is the company per se , but in family enterprises one is required to examine the role of the owning family in the governance …
Nature and Significance of Family Business
One of the first tasks to confront the serious student of family business, or as some prefer it, ‘family enterprise’, as a field of scholarly inquiry, is to determine what is meant by the term. Researchers from academia and consulting organisations are not the only ones grappling with the definition. Based on the authors’ numerous conversations with journalists pursuing some hot story involving conflict between members of a family who are in busi…
Vision and Strategy as Key Governance Measures in Family Business
Have you ever heard of Joshua Slocum? Probably not. Slocum was the first person to attempt to sail alone around the world. 1 On 24 April 1895, at the age of 51, he set sail from Boston in a boat that was about 12 meters long. Just over three years later, on 27 June 1898, he anchored again off Newport, the first solo sailor to circumnavigate the globe. The money he needed had been earned as he went. These keywords were added by machine and not by …
Key Elements of a Governance Structure in a Family Business: The Board of Directors
In Chapter 3 we indicated that boards typically hold a central position in the corporate governance arena. They indeed represent one of the key elements in a corporate constitution. This is true for family-controlled enterprises as well as for publicly held companies. Because of this pivotal significance, it is necessary to discuss in some depth their specific role, their composition, their working style and the particular problems they may face …
Stages of Evolution of Family Enterprises
Part of the task of Chapter 1 was to grapple with the thorny issue of defining the subject of this book: the family enterprise. When reading the many definitions cited, one is struck by how many seem to convey a static, non-dynamic picture of the family firm. Yet both intuitively and experientially we know that all enterprises, whether or not they are family managed and/or owned, are anything but static. They change, transform, mutate and evolve …
The Family Business: Its Governance for Sustainability
Family Business Performance and Succession (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Corporate governance (5 works) · Family business (5 works) · Management (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Finance (4 works) · History (4 works)