Marsha Vaughn

... Address correspondence to: Briana S. Nelson, PhD, School of Family Studies and Human Services, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-1403, E-mail: bnelson@ksu.edu. Journal of Teaching in Marriage and Family, Vol. ... Boston: Allyn & Bacon. Broschart, KR (1978). ...

ABSTRACT This article presents a family program set in an intensive outpatient setting for treating alcohol/other drug problems. The program stems from concern that families are not provided enough attention and/or services as residential settings have provided in the ...

The Family Business Casebook Annual 2004 is comprised of nine chapters reporting family business cases from Greece, Romania, Italy, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, and the United States. Because it is about the family aspects of doing business, it focuses on such issues as the decision by children in family businesses to pursue or not pursue the family business, multigenerational succession, the special challenges of family firms pursuing ethnic markets in nonnative countries, formalization and professionalization, and the development and maintenance of social capital. The Family Business Casebook Annual has several objectives. In the preface of the volume the editors state that the objectives include: 1. The development of a forum for scholars and practitioners to work together to review the factors shaping the strategic development of entrepreneurial family enterprises. 2. The promotion, formulation, and dissemination of case studies from around the world that can be used for training and empirical study. 3. The highlighting of how multiple-case-study research can impart additional stimulus to the advancement of the family business theorization process. 4. The provision of a vehicle in which the casestudy-method approach can be used for the exposition of the processes in family-controlled firms that may lead either to their competitive advantage or to their demise. 6. The development of in-depth understanding of unique situations that can aid theory development. Each of the chapters reports one or multiple case studies and relates to one or more of the above stated objectives. The “Love and Work” case study, presented by R. Carlock and E. F. Treacy, describes the emotional conflict felt by a young family member as she develops her career. The teaching objective of the case is to help potential successors discover their “fit” in a family business. It is also designed to portray that there are many forms of significant participation that the organization can create for family members, including, but not limited to, governance, ownership, and advising. The case does a good job of describing and resolving the issues and could lead to good classroom discussion. However, because issues are resolved, the exercise is informative and does not require the resolution of problems by the reader. G. Gómez uses a multiple-case-study approach to show that trust in outsiders, the use of strategic management, and family protocols are positively related to superior business performance. The eight case studies presented in the chapter provide some empirical support for the above propositions. The information presented in the case studies supports some of the theoretical propositions, and hence meets the objectives of developing practical theory. In contrast, the approach taken in Chapter 2 does not provide sufficient

The spotlight in education in recent years has been focused on the areas of professional development activities for teachers and the development of professional learning communities. However, the majority of research has omitted the Christian school ...

Abstract 1. This study explored the relationships between an individual's interpersonal functioning, perceived spirituality, and selected spiritual practices. Using Bowen's family systems theory, the authors proposed that an individual's level of spiritual development ...

The premise of this article is that to understand how family affects business, the issue of how individual family members relate to the family must also be addressed. To that end, we propose family orientation (FO) to assess the extent to which individuals perceive and value family involvement. Drawing on the family therapy literature, including Bowen's family systems theory and contextual family therapy, we identify and develop five dimensions of FO—tradition, stability, loyalty, trust, and interdependency. We also discuss factors that might affect an individual's FO score, how FO might enhance understanding of other family business processes and practices, and future research directions.