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Emphasizing the diversity of regional and national models, this book explores the history of transformation of family businesses around the world during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
List of contents
Introduction.Family Business History: A Bibliometric Approach (1949-2023) Teresa Mateo, José M. Ortiz-Villajos and Paloma Fernández Pérez PART ONE. Family Business History in Europe and the United States 1. Family Capitalism in Comparative Perspective: Germany and the USA Hartmut Berghoff and Ingo Köhler 2. French Family Firms Since the End of World War II: From Difficult Survival to New Specialties and a Potential of Dynamics Patrick Fridenson 3. Exploring the Importance of Place in Family Businesses: Evidence from the UK Niall G. MacKenzie and Nicholas D. Wong 4. Family Firms in the Netherlands: Outdated and Secretive, or Resilient and Sustainable? Ewout J. Hasken and Keetie Sluyterman 5. Large Family Businesses: The Nordic Case Hans Sjögren 6. Families, Firms and Growth: Paradoxes of Italian Capitalism Andrea Colli 7. Family Businesses in Modern Spain, 1939-2023 Paloma Fernández Pérez and Juan Francisco Corona 8. Greek Family Business of the Tertiary Sector, 19th-20th Centuries: Shipping and Tourism Gelina Harlaftis and Aimilia Vlani PART TWO. Family Business History in Asia 9. Historical Dynamics of the Family System and Family Business in Japan Hideaki Sato and Takafumi Kurosawa 10. Family Capitalism in South Korea: Realities and Limitations Dominique Barjot 11. The Changing Nature of Chinese Family Firms and the Enduring Character of Chinese Business Families Carles Brasó Broggi and Yuan Jia-Zheng 12. Family Businesses in India: History and the Future Tirthankar Roy PART THREE. Family Business History in Latin America 13. Entrepreneurship and Survival: Narratives and Voices of Argentinean Large Family Businesses Andrea Lluch 14. Family Business Groups in Central America: From Local Markets to the Internationalization, 1980-2020 Javier Vidal, Lissette Canales and Candelaria Saiz 15. Large Family Business in Mexico: Legacy and Longevity Araceli Almaraz Alvarado 16. Colombian Family Capitalism in the Twentieth Century: Business Heterogeneity, Strategic Behavior, and Growth Beatriz Rodríguez-Satizábal and Julio César Zuloaga 17. From a Large Family Business to a Heterogeneous Business Structure: Business Family and the State in Peru, 1890-2020 Martin Monsalve Zanatti PART FOUR. Family Business History in Africa 18. For Family and Country: Enduring Entrepreneurial Family Firms in South Africa in the Twentieth Century Grietjie Verhoef 19. A Historical Perspective of North African, Levantine, and Gulf Family Businesses in the 20th Century Israa Mahgoub, Martin Klimke, Farida El Agamy and Shereen El Agamy
About the author
Paloma Fernández Pérez is Professor of Economic and Business History at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
Summary
Emphasizing the diversity of regional and national models, this book explores the history of transformation of family businesses around the world during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
