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• Mehran Baloch ( Masters in Commerce)
• Khurshed shohaz (Bachelor of Business
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• Deen Muhammad (Bachelor of Business
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 Based on: Capital Structure Decision Making: A Model for
Family Business
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• Claudio A. ROMANO Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Background • George A. TANEWSKI Monash University, Victoria, Australia
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• KOSMAS X. SMYRNIOS Monash University, Victoria, Australia

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The article discusses the impact of family businesses on economies

and the lack of empirical research on the factors that influence
funding decisions of family business owners. It highlights the need to
identify the specific variables that affect business owners' financing
decisions and integrates divergent theories to develop a broad-
based framework that explains financing decisions from a family
business perspective.
 • There is a complex array of factors that influence small-to-medium
size enterprise (SME) owner-managers' financing decisions.

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• However, most research focuses on either public companies or

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privately-held SMEs with scant consideration of family issues.

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• Theoretical frameworks used to drive research have little attempt to

integrate different theories, resulting in theoretical divergence.
 • A random sample of 5000 businesses obtained from Dun and Bradstreet
• Questionnaires were mailed in December 1996 and January 1997 to
business owners with an accompanying letter explaining the purpose of
the study
• Valid response rate was 29.2%
• Non useable return questionnaires (n = 34), businesses that indicated

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they were not family firms (n = 368), and return-to-sender mail (n = 29)
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• No response bias tests were conducted to compare valid respondents

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with non-respondents
• Characteristics of early respondents were not significantly different from
late respondents
• Correlation matrices and structural relations estimates from two
randomly selected halves of this data set did not differ significantly
 1. size, industry, age of firm, age of CEO, extent of family control,
business owners’ financing decisions.
2. interaction of owner, firm, and family characteristics influence capital
structure decision-making processes
3. smaller family businesses typically have a substantial amount of their
funding provided by internally generated funds such as owner capital,

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other members of the management team, family, and friends.

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4. form of finance affects growth and ultimate long-term survival.
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5. Financial institutions also seem to place a heavy reliance on success,

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wealth, character of the borrower (e.g., integrity and management jk

skills), owners’ capacity to repay loans (e.g., cash flow, and business
environment)
 Small family businesses tend to rely on family loans for startup and
growth.
 In contrast to the findings of Renfrew, Sheehan, and Dunlop (1984),
our study demonstrates that small family firms that do not have
formalized business plans in writing, tend to derive their funds from
family loans
 • Family businesses are essential for economic growth
and require empirical research that considers family
issues when investigating factors that influence

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