Hardback
Family Business Case Studies Across the World
Succession and Governance in a Disruptive Era
9781800884243 Edward Elgar Publishing
Designed as a learning tool to nurture contextual empathy and strategic decision-making capabilities in families-in-business facing internal and external disruptions, Family Business Case Studies Across the World presents a unique collection of case studies from across the globe to create a comprehensive understanding of how family firms can respond to future disruptions.
More Information
Critical Acclaim
Contributors
More Information
This book presents a unique collection of case studies from across the globe to create a comprehensive understanding of how family firms can respond to future disruptions. Each case contains learning notes with objectives, discussion questions and suggested readings to facilitate learner understanding and engagement with the topic. Cases on topics such as global succession and governance practices will aid strategic decision-making capabilities in family businesses and will also benefit practitioners in these areas.
不同世代的参与,演示graphic groups, cultural aspects, institutional settings and industries, the cases range from founder-led SMEs to multi-generational family conglomerates, within industries from agriculture to tourism, in 18 countries spanning over four continents. In addition to identifying successful practices, this book offers unconventional wisdom on the impact of family failure and dysfunction, feuds, sudden death, divorce and multiple marriages on family businesses. It concludes by exposing new understandings on succession and the unique role played by rising-generation leaders in this disruptive era.
Informed by the common research paradigm of the Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practice (STEP) Project Global Consortium, this book will provide a practical learning experience for advanced students and scholars of family business, family entrepreneurship, and strategic management studies.
不同世代的参与,演示graphic groups, cultural aspects, institutional settings and industries, the cases range from founder-led SMEs to multi-generational family conglomerates, within industries from agriculture to tourism, in 18 countries spanning over four continents. In addition to identifying successful practices, this book offers unconventional wisdom on the impact of family failure and dysfunction, feuds, sudden death, divorce and multiple marriages on family businesses. It concludes by exposing new understandings on succession and the unique role played by rising-generation leaders in this disruptive era.
Informed by the common research paradigm of the Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practice (STEP) Project Global Consortium, this book will provide a practical learning experience for advanced students and scholars of family business, family entrepreneurship, and strategic management studies.
Critical Acclaim
‘Cases are a slice of life that offer a mirror into the life and work of a family enterprise. As the world changes so deeply these cases help us understand the unique ways that families are responding to the current time of crisis and upheaval. Incredible stories!'
– Dennis Jaffe, BanyanGlobal Family Business Advisors
‘This very impressive volume contains extraordinarily useful case studies that address key challenges that face family businesses today. The contributing authors generously share their academic expertise and blend it with up to date, exciting and interesting stories based on real life experience from family businesses across the world. As an editor of the first STEP Project book volume published in 2010, I can highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in understanding successful family enterprising.’
– Mattias Nordqvist, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden and Former Co-Director of the Global STEP Project
'As an agri-food manufacturer, this case study succinctly encapsulates the challenges and crises our family business encountered. We hope the learnings from our experience illustrate the resilience family firms must demonstrate, and the importance of keeping your family values at the heart of everything you do.'
– Michael Hoey, Country Crest
– Dennis Jaffe, BanyanGlobal Family Business Advisors
‘This very impressive volume contains extraordinarily useful case studies that address key challenges that face family businesses today. The contributing authors generously share their academic expertise and blend it with up to date, exciting and interesting stories based on real life experience from family businesses across the world. As an editor of the first STEP Project book volume published in 2010, I can highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in understanding successful family enterprising.’
– Mattias Nordqvist, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden and Former Co-Director of the Global STEP Project
'As an agri-food manufacturer, this case study succinctly encapsulates the challenges and crises our family business encountered. We hope the learnings from our experience illustrate the resilience family firms must demonstrate, and the importance of keeping your family values at the heart of everything you do.'
– Michael Hoey, Country Crest
Contributors
Contributors include: Daniël Agterhuis , Dalal Alrubaishi, Kevin Au, Nunzia Auletta, Ameline Bordas, Stephen Browne, Myriam Cano-Rubio, César Cáceres, Kelly Xing Chen, Hsi-Mei Chung, Eric Clinton, Alexandre Dias da Cunha, Irmak Erdogan, Steve Gaklis, Remedios Hernández-Linares, María-Jesús Hernández-Ortiz, Marshall Jen Peter Klein, Jolanda Knobel, Brittany Kraus, Yi-Chun Lu, Antonio Martinez Valdez, Patricia Monteferrante, Carmen Pachas Orihuela, Francisca Panadés-Zamora, Stefan Prigge, Miruna Radu-Lefebvre, Kavil Ramachandran, Elena Rozhdestvenskaya, Andrea “Ginny” Santiago, Rosemarie Steenbeek, Elizabeth Tetzlaff, Manuel Carlos Vallejo-Martos, Julian van den Akker, Judith van Helvert, Stefano Wagner Avila, You Fong Wu, Özlem Yildirim-Öktem
