This insightful and innovative book proposes a new theory of socio-material weaving for studying and understanding family business. It dissolves the family business into activities, constituted of the sociality of human interactions and relations and interwoven with materials that extend in both a bodily-lived and spatial existential sense.
Monograph Chapter
In An Alternative Approach to Family Business
Mona Ericson
- Published:
- 12 October 2021
Collection:
Business 2021
Edited by Pramodita Sharma and Sanjay Sharma
This book describes the sustainable development journey of 15 business families committed to using their enterprises as a force of societal good. In turn, each family reaps benefits of high economic returns, while contributing to society and environment. The youngest family firm is in its 20s, while there are others over 100 years of age. Size, industry, locations vary. But all these business families share a deep shared commitment towards sustainable development, control over strategic decision-making in their firms and trans-generational continuity intentions. Family values embed their enterprises with a strong sense of purpose to achieve their chosen sustainable development goals. Professionalized systems and processes foster the development of capabilities, and partnerships with a variety of stakeholders ensure the simultaneous achievement of social, environmental and profitability goals.
Edited by Hung-bin Ding, Hsi-Mei Chung, Andy Yu and Phillip H. Phan
The scope and depth of family business research have been quickly expanding in the last two decades. The editors and contributors to this book present eight recent studies examining the impact of external or internal family conditions on the innovation, growth, and succession of family firms in Asia.
A Research Agenda for Family Business
A Way Ahead for the Field
Edited by Andrea Calabrò
This exciting Research Agenda expertly addresses the question: What will be important within the family business field and for family businesses in practice over the next decade?
Top international contributors explore farsighted theories, methods and topics, often taking a multi-disciplinary approach in order to outline the potential routes for further advancing family business research. Chapters cover the significance of new family trends, entrepreneurial legacy, board diversity, spatial-familiness, corruption, innovation and digital business transformation, challenging core assumptions surrounding the family business phenomenon and mapping the future of the discipline.
Handbook Chapter
In Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for Family Business
Edited by Alfredo De Massis and Nadine Kammerlander
- Published:
- 10 March 2020
Collection:
Business 2020
Handbook Chapter
In Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for Family Business
Edited by Alfredo De Massis and Nadine Kammerlander
- Published:
- 10 March 2020
Collection:
Business 2020
Edited by Alfredo De Massis and Nadine Kammerlander
This timely Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the methodological challenges of qualitative research in family business. Written by an international, multidisciplinary team of experts in the field, the Handbook provides practical guidance based on the experiences of senior researchers, and features reflective discussion on how to craft insightful, rigorous studies.
Family Firms and Institutional Contexts
Business Models, Innovation and Competitive Advantage
Edited by Giorgia M. D’Allura, Andrea Colli and Sanjay Goel
Featuring in-depth analysis of original research, this innovative book takes an interdisciplinary, cross-national approach to the study of family firms as institutions as well as the relationship between family firms and external institutions. It demonstrates the impact of these interactions both on the firms and institutions themselves and in the wider economic context, and provides important conceptual insights as well as ideas for future research agendas.
Giorgia Maria D’Allura, Andrea Colli and Sanjay Goel
Family firms represent over 90 percent of businesses around the world and often play a more significant role in the economies of nations. The impact of the family on organizational behavior and firm performance is the factor that makes the difference between family and non-family firms. To illustrate how the family as a variable can be used to generate theory in a broad explanatory sense, we need to investigate both micro- and macro-levels of organizations. At a micro-level, family firms’ heterogeneity may be explained in terms of how the family behaves and intervenes in the business. At a macro-level, a possible explanation of such diversity is the institutional context, that is the general framework that influences firms’ behavior and strategy along the dimensions of culture, innovation propensity, law, governance rules, economic and financial constraints, and so on. Indeed, the family as a social unit can be considered another dimension of the institutional context. The book contributes in all these directions through theoretical and empirical chapters from different institutional contexts.
Monograph Chapter
In Family Firms and Institutional Contexts
Edited by Giorgia M. D’Allura, Andrea Colli and Sanjay Goel
- Published:
- 14 October 2019
Collection:
Business 2019