Family businesses in the Irish services sector: profile and productivity

dc.contributor.authorMacFeely, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorO'Brien, Catriona
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-15T15:20:00Z
dc.date.available2020-01-15T15:20:00Z
dc.date.issued2008-10
dc.description.abstractMost family businesses are small, engage less than 10 persons and trade in the more traditional industries, such as the distributive trades or hospitality industries. Family businesses export less product, generate a lower proportion of their turnover from Internet sales and typically have a lower Gross Value Added (GVA) per employee than non-family businesses. Nevertheless, these family businesses make a significant contribution to the services sector, accounting for more than 46% of all non-financial traded services enterprises. They are almost exclusively Irish owned, employ over a quarter of a million persons and account for 40% of all persons engaged. In 2005, family businesses in the services sectors generated an aggregate turnover in excess of ?49 billion. Yet according to international studies these family businesses have in or around a 60% probability of failure as they transfer from first to second generation ownership, potentially putting thousands of jobs at risk.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationMacFeely, S. and O'Brien, C. (2008) 'Family businesses in the Irish services sector: profile and productivity', Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, XXXVIII, pp.1-41.en
dc.identifier.endpage41en
dc.identifier.issn0081-4776
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Irelanden
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/9518
dc.identifier.volumeXXXVIIIen
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherStatistical and Social Inquiry Society of Irelanden
dc.relation.urihttp://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/1080
dc.relation.urihttp://www.ssisi.ie
dc.rights© Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland 2008en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/en
dc.subjectFamily businessen
dc.subjectService sectoren
dc.subjectFirm performanceen
dc.titleFamily businesses in the Irish services sector: profile and productivityen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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