¡@¡@By utilizing longitudinal data over 10 years, this research tries to examine the relationships between distinctive political linkages by family members and the diversification implications in family business group in Taiwan. The past researches have highlighted that the political linkages established by family members have significant influence on the family business group¡¦s diversification. However, there is little researches examine who¡¦s political linkage is critical in determining the diversification decision in family business group. From social capital viewpoint, this research tries to investigate the diversification implications of political linkages established by three family roles, i.e., the founder, the sons, and the marriage roles, in family business groups. The results reveal that the founder¡¦s informal political linkages have significantly positive influence on the diversification. Furthermore, the political linkages established by marriage roles do not reveal significant influence on the group¡¦s diversification. However, the son¡¦s political linkages have distinctive influences on the diversification decision. In that, the son¡¦s formal political linkages have significantly negative influence on diversification, but the son¡¦s informal political linkages have significantly positive influence on diversification. The results indicate that the differential roles in family business groups have distinctive influence on the strategy decisions. The results provide insightful theoretical and practical implications in diversification issue and political linkages issues in largely family business groups.

The study aims to analyze the impact of political linkage on diversification strategy and firm performance. Previous studies indicate that firm¡¦s political linkages will generate performance impact in emerging economies. However, whether firm¡¦s political linkages will generate performance implications are underestimated. By utilizing longitudinal data in financial family business groups in Taiwan, this study tries to examine the relationships among political linkages, diversification strategy, and family business group¡¦s performance from the social capital viewpoint. The results indicate that in the current database, the higher level of formal political linkages, the higher degree of diversification in family business groups. Moreover, diversification strategy will generate mediated impact on the relationship between formal political linkages and performance in family business groups. In that, the consideration of diversification will lower the performance implications by formal political linkage in family business groups. The family business group¡¦s formal political linkageswill generate distinctive impact on diversification strategy and performance in emerging economies. The results provide referable value in addressing political linkages issues in family business groups in Asia.

¡@¡@Corporate foundations initiated by large family enterprises are usually explained from the social responsibility viewpoint. In that, the family initiated the corporate foundations to achieve the social responsibility in the society. However, what is the possible control role of corporate foundations in family businesses is seldom investigated. By utilizing the over-eight-year data in Taiwan¡¦s family business groups, this study tries to investigate the antecedent of corporate foundations in large family business groups from the resource dependence theory and institutional theory viewpoint. The results indicate that the family ownership and family management will influence the control of corporate foundations in large family business groups in Taiwan. Specifically, the more likely that the family members involve in key decision-making roles in the group, and the more likely that the family members will utilize pyramidal ownership structure to control the multiple affiliates in the group, the more likely that the family members will serve as the key decision-making roles in the corporate foundations in the family business groups. The findings provide a power explanation in initiating corporate foundations in family business context. Moreover, the findings indicate that the corporate foundation play a key role in the share-controlled relationships in the large family business groups. The results provide referable values in discussing the non-profit organizations roles in family business group¡¦s control issues.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T18:39:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Antonio Luis Borges Goncalves.pdf: 1461906 bytes, checksum: dec8022c843a8987d330d28ba011f27e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-10-14 / This research seeks to identify the main difficulties for Implementation of the Fiscal Intelligence - Competitive Intelligence stemmed - and the Information Technology area of the controller, in order to perform ITS providing the function of decisionmaking process with useful information, based on the scenario current state of Artificial Intelligence, developed by collection agencies. Methodology for this research was exploratory type Chosen, Which includes an empirical study and a single case study, with analysis and company information, the object of study. In the empirical part was the review of the literature for the Theoretical background, date on the concept of the Comptroller and Importance in organizations, ITS roll, The Importance of information in organizations, the generation of competitive intelligence, organizational intelligence and intelligence tax. In the Practical part of the case study was first prepared a roadmap for guiding the composition of three models of the questionnaire to be answered by professionals of the Following six Sectors: Controlling Fiscal Management and Information Technology, a company owned by a family group, connected to the segment of perfumery and cosmetics, with Both wholesale and retail sales, the market targeted Characterized by the Manaus Free Zone (three research participants) and another for a Free Trade Area, also called the Market Place, with independent structures and independent administration, Represented by the Northern Region of Brazil (three research participants). With research, it Becomes Possible to observe the situation of the company object of study before and after Implementation of the intelligence structure seeking to Fulfill Obligations in full tax principal and accessory to it using an ERP system and Business Intelligence. With the Questionnaires Concluded That it was the business intelligence tool Can help in controlling function of Their Providing reliable, useful and timely decision-making through flexible and dynamic, Providing, as a consequence, the improvement of processes and time generation of digital files designed to meet the governmental entities / Esta pesquisa busca identificar as principais dificuldades para implementação da Inteligência Fiscal − provinda da Inteligência Competitiva e da Tecnologia da Informação à área de controladoria, com o objetivo de exercer sua função de suprir o processo decisório com as informações úteis, baseando-se no cenário da situação atual da Inteligência Artificial, desenvolvida pelos órgãos arrecadadores. Para tanto foi escolhida metodologia de pesquisa do tipo exploratória, que contempla um estudo empírico e um estudo de caso único, com análise e informações da empresa, objeto de estudo. Na parte empírica houve a revisão da literatura para o embasamento teórico, com dados sobre o conceito e a importância da Controladoria nas organizações, o seu papel fundamental, a importância da informação nas organizações brasileiras, a geração de inteligência competitiva, inteligência organizacional e inteligência fiscal. Na parte prática, do estudo de caso, foi primeiramente elaborado um roteiro norteador para a composição de três modelos de questionário a serem respondidos por seis profissionais dos seguintes setores: Controladoria Fiscal, Diretoria e Tecnologia de Informação, de uma empresa pertencente a um grupo familiar, ligado ao segmento de perfumaria e cosméticos, com vendas tanto no atacado quanto no varejo, segmentada por um mercado caracterizado pela Zona Franca de Manaus (três participantes da pesquisa) e outro por uma Área de Livre Comércio, também chamada de Mercado Local, com estruturas independentes e administração independente, representada pela Região Norte do Brasil (três participantes da pesquisa). Com a pesquisa torna-se possível a observação da situação da empresa objeto do estudo antes e depois da implementação da estrutura de inteligência fiscal buscando satisfazer plenamente as obrigações principais e acessórias utilizando-se para isso de um sistema ERP e de um Business Intelligence. Com os questionários foi possível concluir que a ferramenta de Business Intelligence pode auxiliar a controladoria na sua função de prover informações confiáveis, úteis e tempestivas ao processo decisório, por meio de flexibilização e dinamicidade, proporcionando, como consequência, a melhoria dos processos e do tempo na geração de arquivos digitais destinados a satisfazer os entes governamentais