Editorial

ABSTRACT

A product primarily of culture rather than economics, the story of Barovier and Toso – and the theoretical model that the authors bring to bear in explaining its success – is one that has meaning not just for this firm, but for family businesses more generally. [...]as noted by the authors of this insightful article – Patricia Loga (Massey University, New Zealand), Andrew Cardow (Massey University, New Zealand) and Andy Asquith (Curtin University, Australia) – this benign image is hardly reflective of Fiji’s troubled past. Since 1987, Fiji has experienced three coups, two undertaken by the military and the third associated with violent civil unrest. [...]independence in 1970, Britain ruled the country indirectly in ways that preserved traditional Fiji society and its system of tribal chiefs. [...]Britain encouraged the development of a large-scale commercial sugar industry, importing large numbers of workers from India to labor in the plantations.