The endurance of family businesses : a global overview / edited by Paloma Fernández Pérez (Universitat de Barcelona), Andrea Colli (Bocconi University, Milan).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fernández Pérez, Paloma, 1964- editor.

Colli, Andrea, 1966- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family-owned business enterprises--Case studies.

Family-owned business enterprises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Endurance of Family Businesses is a collection of essays offering an overview of the importance and resilience of family-controlled large businesses. Much of economic and business history research neglects family businesses, considering them an inefficient form of business organization. These essays discuss the strengths of family businesses: the ways family firms have managed, financed and governed their corporations, as well as the way in which they structure their relationship with the external environment, from the government to the company's stakeholders. Family businesses have learned new ways of organizing their resources and using their accumulated know-how for new markets and institutional environments. This volume combines the expertise of well-known scholars who specialize in business history, economic history, management and consulting, to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on family businesses. Contributors provide a global view by taking into account Asian, American and European experiences.

Contents:

List of contributors

List of abbreviations

List of figures and tables

Introduction a global revolution : the endurance of large family businesses around the world / Paloma Fernández Pérez and Andrea Colli

Theoretical issues and debates

The emergence of family business studies : a historical approach to pioneering centers, scholars, and ideas / Paloma Fernández Pérez and Nuria Puig

Family firm longevity : a balancing act between continuity and change / Pramodita Sharma and Carlo Salvato

Family values or crony capitalism? / Harold James

Risk, uncertainty and family ownership / Andrea Colli

Exogenous factors: the environment

Families breaking the business logic: the enterpreneurial spirit in the evolution of Swedish family businesses / Hans Sjögren

Cultural forces in large family firm persistence : a model based upon the CASE project / Vipin Gupta

Family firms and the new multinationals : evidence from Spain / Mauro F. Guillén and Esteban Garcia-Canal

Finance and family-ness : a historical overview of assessing the economics of kinship / Christopher Kobrak and Pramuan Bunkanwanicha

Endogenous determinants : inside the black box

The women of the family business / Christine Blondel, with the collaboration of Marina Niforos

The role of values in family-owned firms / Remei Agulles, Lucia Ceja, and Josep Tàpies

Managing professionalization in family business : transforming strategies for managerial succession and recruitment in family firms in the twentieth century / Susanna Fellman

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-89178-2

1-107-28983-1

1-107-28927-0

1-107-48051-5

1-107-29416-9

1-107-29137-2

1-107-29032-5

1-139-79484-1

1-107-29309-X

OCLC:

862126017