| The Endurance of Family Businesses Contributor(s): Fernandez Perez, Paloma (Editor), Colli, Andrea (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1107480515 ISBN-13: 9781107480513 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $40.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economic History - Business & Economics | Infrastructure - Business & Economics | Industries - General |
| Dewey: 338.7 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1 lbs) 308 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Colli, Andrea: - Andrea Colli is Professor of Economic and Social History in the Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. He is a member of the Editorial Review Board of Family Business Review. He is the author of Business History: Complexities and Comparisons (with Franco Amatori, 2011).Fernandez Perez, Paloma: - Paloma Fernández Pérez is a Professor in the Department of Economic and Business History at the University of Barcelona. She received one of the first ICREA Academia awards from the Catalan government in 2008 and is in the editorial council of the journals Business History and Investigaciones de Historia Económica. She founded and coordinates the Network of Interdisciplinary Research in Family Firms. Her last book was La última globalización y el renacer de los grandes negocios familiares en el mundo (2012). |