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A collection of essays offering an overview of the importance and resilience of family-controlled large businesses.
List of contents
Introduction: a global revolution: the endurance of large family businesses around the world Paloma Fernandez Perez and Andrea Colli; Part I. Theoretical Issues and Debates: 1. The emergence of family business studies: a historical approach to pioneering centers, scholars, and ideas Paloma Fernandez Perez and Nuria Puig; 2. Family firm longevity: a balancing act between continuity and change Pramodita Sharma and Carlo Salvato; 3. Family values or crony capitalism Harold James; 4. Risk, uncertainty, and family ownership Andrea Colli; Part II. Exogenus Factors: The Environment: 5. Entrepreneurial spirit in the evolution of Swedish family businesses Hans Sjögren; 6. Cultural forces in large family firm persistence: a model based upon the case project Vipin Gupta; 7. Family firms and the new multinationals: evidence from Spain Mauro F. Guillén and Esteban Garcia Canal; 8. Finance and family-ness: a historical overview of assessing the economics of kinship Christopher Kobrak and Pramuan Bunkanwanicha; Part III. Endogenous Determinants: Inside the Black Box: 9. The women of the family business Christine Blondel and Marina Niforos; 10. The role of values in family-owned firms Remei Agulles, Lucia Ceja and Josep Tàpies; 11. Managing professionalization in family business: transforming strategies for managerial succession and recruitment in family firms in the twentieth century Susanna Fellman.
About the author
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).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).
