Factors affecting the expansion strategies of family-owned manufacturing businesses

• Main Authors: Lim, Pierre Steven K., Lui, Ron Austin P., Navarro, Joel Angelo P., Quidilia, Ezekiel U.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2010
• Subjects: Family owned business enterprises > Management; Industrial management; Business planning; Strategic planning; Industries > Environmental aspects; Business Administration, Management, and Operations
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/18590; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=19103&context=etd_bachelors
• Institution: De La Salle University

This thesis intends to explain how family-owned manufacturing businesses expand their companies. Utilizing a model-building approach, it discusses the process of how various factors - the business characteristics (age, size, financial resources, and corporate strategy), ownership structure, and family characteristics - affect the decision as to what growth and expansion strategies the company will undergo, with consideration as well to the external environment (specific industry environment, local geographic environment, and general economic environment) at the time of expansion. It also explains a more applicable working model after a pattern was established in terms of the four companies (Sterling Paper Products Enterprises Inc., Philippine Starch Industrial Corporation, VECO Paper Corporation, and Mansfield International Inc.) studied herein.