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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Chinese family"”.
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TO SUCCEED IN SUCCESSIONS:FAMILY SUCCESSION AND FIRM BEHAVIOR IN CHINESE FAMILY FIRMS
In family firms, CEO successions are key events for firms’ sustainable development, and different types of successors may influence firm behaviors in significantly different ways. To respond to the mixed results of extant studies and unveil the underlying effects, this study adopted a …
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Enhancing Nutrition Education and Physical Activities in Chinese Community: We Can! Chinese Family Campaign
… will introduce my fieldwork project, the We Can! Chinese Families Campaign, and explain how this nutrition project can reduce childhood obesity in the Chinese low-income community in San Francisco. The We Can! Chinese Families Campaign is based on the National Institute of Health’s program, Ways …
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An assessment of management practices in Chinese family-owned SMEs in the Cape Metropolitan area
… respected traditions is a preference for the family unit. The closeness of the family unit is carried over into the economic life of the country. Family members not only live together, but also work together in the fields or in enterprises. The advantage of this is that families have a …
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The First Child in a Chinese Family Who Could Read Prior to Entry into Elementary School: A Qualitative Intrinsic Case Study
… of the literacy-related human environment a Chinese girl experienced as the first person in the history of her family who was able to read prior to entry into elementary school. Temporally speaking, the study spanned more than a decade from the initial, tentative research question to the …
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The role of SEW and TMT behaviours in family business innovation: Evidence from China
Innovation is the lifeblood of a family business and plays an important role in developing the firm's competitiveness and achieving sustainable growth. As the majority of Chinese private firms and the main foundation of China's private sector, Chinese family businesses are an emerging force for …
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The motivation, process and strategy of internationalisation by Malaysian firms into the United Kingdom
… broadly fall into three types: conglomerates, Chinese family firms and govemment-linked companies (GLCs). A total of 19 companies in Malaysia and 8 companies in the U. K. finally agreed to participate in the research. Interviews in Malaysia took place in July to October 2003 and those in the U. …
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Caring for aging parents in Canadian nursing homes : an ethnographic study on immigrant families’ experiences
This thesis explored how Canadian-Chinese family members adapted and adjusted when caring for their parents in Canadian nursing homes. I drew the data from in-depth, semi-structured, open ended interviews with three participants. Building on symbolic interactionism theory, the analysis explored how …
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The Implication of Childhood Adultification on the Mental Health of Young Adults Among Chinese and Taiwanese Immigrant Families
… impact of adultification on the mental health of Chinese immigrant young adults. Given the emphasis of Chinese cultural norms on interdependence and filial piety, I also explored whether family obligation attitudes influence how Chinese immigrant young adults perceive adultification experiences. …
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Strategic responses of family firms to external disruption: Examining the role of family and dynamic capabilities with evidence from China
This research examines the strategic responses of family firms to external disruptions, focusing on the role of family and dynamic capabilities (DCs) with evidence from Chinese family firms during the COVID-19 pandemic. By combining the theoretical framework of DCs in strategic management and …
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Representing Divorce, Reforming Interiority: Narratives of Gender, Class and Family in Post-Reform Chinese Literature and Culture
"This project stands at the juncture of modern Chinese literature, post-socialist studies, cultural history of divorce, and critical studies about global middle-class cultures. Employing analytical tools mainly from literary studies, cultural studies and feminist theories, I examine stories, …
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Understanding the Influence of the Father Roles in Contemporary Chinese Two-Parent Families on Young People’s Educational Experiences
Although Chinese society traditionally emphasises fathers as financial providers and moral authorities in the family, in recent years, social transformation and gender norms shifts means that fathers are increasingly expected to provide emotional support and be involved in educational activities. …
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The family care of Chinese old people : a study of Chinese communities in London.
… examines the financial relationships between Chinese older people and their family, the living arrangements of older people, the needs for care and the provision of care in Hong Kong as well as in London. It points out the myth of the traditional Chinese extended family which existed only …
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Kinetic Family Drawings of Chinese-American Children
… of cultural backgrounds. Information on Chinese-American children and their families is limited even though the Chinese are one of the main minority groups in America and increasingly more Chinese are migrating here. This study sought to use the Kinetic Family Drawing (KFD) as a tool to …
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Deviant fertility in China
While most Western and Chinese scholars emphasize the success of Chinese family planning programs, this dissertation focuses on fertility behavior which violates family planning regulations in China. The study contributes to a better understanding of the Chinese "deviant" fertility by …
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Implementation and Evaluation of a Chinese Language Family Literacy Program: Impact on Young Children's Literacy Development in Chinese and English
Previous research on family literacy in North America has generally been conducted in English, even if the program targets English for speakers of other languages. However, the differences in English proficiency among parent participants may vary enormously in ways that are not easily predictable. …
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Other-race faces : limitations of expert face recognition /
… experience with other-race faces; they had no Chinese family members, friends or had ever traveled to an Asian country. Results from the memory task did not reveal an other-race effect. In the present study, participants also demonstrated holistic processing of both own- and other-race faces on …
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The logic of practice - understanding the Chinese newly rich consumers' status consumption in luxury fashion clothes.
Chinese newly rich consumers have gained substantial power in the luxury sector through their conspicuous consumption. Chinese consumers lack of cultural capital and inexperience in the purchase and use of material commodities in the luxury consumption field has led many to associate their …
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