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Record W2260721635

The Palestinian Family Businesses

2008· article· en· W2260721635 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Niḍāl Rashīd Ṣabrī

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicFamily Business Performance and Succession
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQuarter (Canadian coin)Inventory turnoverBusinessProfit (economics)ProductivityWorking capitalFamily businessProduct (mathematics)Gross profitMarketingFinanceEconomicsEconomic growthProfitability index
DOInot available

Abstract

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The Palestinian family firm has the advantage of management performance regarding to some financial, marketing and operational aspects compared to the non-family firm, including the rate of return on investments, assets turnover ratio (times a year), inventory turnover ratio, labor productivity and less cost of marketing through using generic product brands, and less cost of sales credit policy. On the other hand, the Palestinian non-family firm had several advantages over family firms in other aspects. For example, the Palestinian non-family firms accomplished higher net profit to sales ratio, it had the advantages of using more credit facilities to finance its working capital, it had less idle capacity, and it was located mainly in proper places and inside industrial zones. About one quarter of the Palestinian entrepreneurs initiated their own family businesses without previous technical experience, while another quarter used to have such experience at least by one of the family member. The other ways and means of entrepreneurs to establish their own family businesses included the conversion from trade to industry, the expansion from workshop to industry or from employee to employer using the old facility of the previous employer.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.036

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.208
Teacher spread0.193 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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