The endurance of family businesses : a global overview /
edited by Paloma Fernández Pérez, Andrea Colli.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- xvii, 288 p. ; 23 cm.
Introduction a global revolution: the endurance of large family businesses around the world / Theoretical issues and debates -- The emergence of family business studies: a historical approach to pioneering centers, scholars, and ideas / Family firm longevity: a balancing act between continuity and change / Family values or crony capitalism? / Risk, uncertainty and family ownership / Exogenous factors: the environment -- Families Braking and Business Logic: The Entrepreneurial spirit in the evolution of Swedish family businesses / Cultural forces in large family firm persistence: a model based upon the CASE project / Family firms and the new multinationals: evidence from Spain / Finance and family-ness: a historical overview of assessing the economics of kinship / Endogenous determinants: inside the black box -- The women of the family business / The role of values in family-owned firms / Managing professionalization in family business: transforming strategies for managerial succession and recruitment in family firms in the twentieth century / Paloma Fernández Pérez and Andrea Colli -- Paloma Fernández Pérez and Nuria Puig -- Pramodita Sharma and Carlo Salvato -- Harold James -- Andrea Colli -- Hans Sjögren -- Vipin Gupta. Mauro F. Guillén and Esteban García Canal -- Christopher Kobrak and Pramuan Bunkanwanicha -- Christine Blondel and Marina Niforos -- Remei Agulles, Lucia Ceja and Josep Tàpies. Susanna Fellman. Pt. 1. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Pt. 2. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Pt. 3. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11.
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. Brings together well-known family business experts from around the world in a variety of disciplines, including family business studies, economics, finance, business history, psychology and philosophy. Analyses the full complexity of the silent transformation of traditional family businesses into global family business players.