What is a Family Business?
Defining the concept of family business is an ongoing challenge. The debate around it is here discussed from the point of view of business history and family business theories as developed in the last fifteen years. Historians are interested in reflecting changes in family businesses at different pe...
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Universitat de Barcelona
2017-07-01
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| description | Defining the concept of family business is an ongoing challenge. The debate around it is here discussed from the point of view of business history and family business theories as developed in the last fifteen years. Historians are interested in reflecting changes in family businesses at different periods and within different societies, and focus their research work on ownership and control within family firms. For their part, family business theorists still understand the concept as a compound or a circular scheme consisting of elements such as business, family and owners or power (governance and management participation), experience (generation in charge) and culture (family and business values). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c00c01828a5942858e21b989e1fc57c82022-12-22T03:14:06ZengUniversitat de BarcelonaJournal of Evolutionary Studies in Business2385-71372017-07-012211510.1344/jesb2017.2.j02816697What is a Family Business?Francisco Javier Fernández-Roca0Fernando Gutiérrez Hidalgo1Universidad Pablo de OlavideUniversidad Pablo de OlavideDefining the concept of family business is an ongoing challenge. The debate around it is here discussed from the point of view of business history and family business theories as developed in the last fifteen years. Historians are interested in reflecting changes in family businesses at different periods and within different societies, and focus their research work on ownership and control within family firms. For their part, family business theorists still understand the concept as a compound or a circular scheme consisting of elements such as business, family and owners or power (governance and management participation), experience (generation in charge) and culture (family and business values).http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/JESB/article/view/19018Family FirmHistoryBusiness |
| spellingShingle | Francisco Javier Fernández-Roca Fernando Gutiérrez Hidalgo What is a Family Business? Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business Family Firm History Business |
| title | What is a Family Business? |
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| title_short | What is a Family Business? |
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| topic | Family Firm History Business |
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