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Book SynopsisThe family business arena is dynamic. Family business owners, managers, and practitioners need to be aware of changing management approaches, processes, and strategies to allow them to respond to global competition in an increasingly chaotic world – as emphasised by the COVID-19 pandemic – whilst maintaining their businesses unique character, culture, and attributes. Family Business Debates provides a novel, ground-breaking approach to diverse and contemporary topics in current business management research, focusing on family enterprises to study both the positive and negative aspects of such commercial structures.
Each chapter explores specific themes as they relate to family businesses and the authors developing a comprehensive and far-reaching perspective of family businesses from experts around the world, showcasing highly controversial topics in today’s global debate within family business and management.
Offering unrivalled coverage of contemporary aspects of family business, Family Business Debates offers a unique focus on theory and applied research in family firms, particularly considering and reviewing the impact of research on policy and practice globally. It aims to communicate the latest family business research and knowledge worldwide for the benefit of scholars and family business practitioners.
Trade ReviewIn “Family Business Debates: Multidimensional Perspectives Across Countries, Continents and Geo-political Frontiers”, the authors propose an exploratory journey in 18 stages towards one of the founding territories, and paradoxically less studied, of our economic system, the family business. The interaction of two complex systems, such as family and business, is addressed in this very interesting book, which first analyzes this confluence from a philosophical and sociological perspective and then illustrates the development of this business model in various geographies. The result? An essential text for those who want to understand the dynamics of family business, either for academic purposes or as support for their professional practice.
-- Alejandro Javier Rosa, Partner in PwC Argentina
This book deepens through the contribution of relevant researchers and academics from around the world, fully reflecting the effort to generate valuable knowledge about a key sector in the current business world. Each chapter involves a crucial and controversial issue of the family business based on reflection, debate and analysis. Covers its idiosyncrasy in different countries, governance, social dimensions, good and bad practices, the entrepreneurship factor, among other themes.
Complexity and exhaustive coverage of strategies, approaches, actions for those who manage family businesses in today's complex world, or for those who are interest to discuss, learn and internalize about the subject. The authors have made a unique, contemporary and innovative contribution that will leave its mark on the challenging future of family businesses.
-- Fabiana Gadow, CEO of Korn Ferry Argentina
This book has been written mainly by new family business scholars from many different places worldwide and brings a new multidimensional and multicultural research agenda. The main objective is to have a high-quality debate between various stakeholders of the family business ecosystem. Academics will find fascinating insights about doing better research in a challenging environment and give examples of case studies that could bring exciting frameworks to the field. For practitioners, they will find valuable ideas to manage their organization through the complexity of the family firms and therefore survive this 5th wave. Some of these primary aspects discussed in the book are factors that influence the continuity of the organization, like how to create a good entrepreneur culture, strategies to become a large firm and how to implement corporate governance in a better way, avoiding bad practices as the concentration of power and corruption. Finally, for policy makers, there are good ideas to endorse family businesses in these new ecosystems. Therefore, I would like to congratulate my colleagues on this initiative that helps our field preserve our family businesses.
-- Gonzalo Gómez-Betancourt; Ph.D, CEO Legacy & Management Consulting Group and Legacy School of Ownership.
"Family Business Debate" is an exciting journey between the theory of the researcher and the practice of the consultant who works with business families. With innovative, current topics and, in many cases, courageous approaches, the book explores little-known aspects of this type of organization. I know several of the authors of the articles, and I can assure you that, as writers, they have put their best into this work to ensure quality and adequate impact on the reader. If you are looking for multicultural perspectives to guide you in understanding today's family businesses, this book is one of the best choices.
-- Guillermo Salazar, Founder of Exaudi Family Business Consulting.
Table of ContentsPart I. Theory
Chapter 1. Family Business Research: 5th Wave Perspectives; Oscar Javier Montiel Méndez, Salvatore Tomaselli, and Argentina Soto Maciel
Chapter 2. Starting at the Beginning: A Scoping Review of Family Business Founders; Marie Segares
Chapter 3. Critical studies in Family Businesses: What are we Afraid of?; Brian Gregory, Allan Discua Cruz, and Sarah L. Jack
Chapter 4. Philosophical Foundations of Family Business Development; Ulises Campbell Manjarrez
Chapter 5. Pedagogical Strategies for Family Business Members from a Lifelong Learning Perspective; Argentina Soto Maciel, Salvatore Tomaselli, and María Rodríguez García
Chapter 6. The Social Family Enterprise: Towards a Disruptive Approach to Social Entrepreneurship; Mariana Zerón Félix
Part II. Practice
Chapter 7. Family Business Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: An Explorative Approach; Oscar Javier Montiel Méndez, Luisa C. Carvalho, and Adriana Martínez
Chapter 8. Japanese Shinise: Long-standing Businesses and their Strategies to Protect the ie under Extreme Environments; Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar
Chapter 9. Australian Family Businesses: Ready to Thrive Post COVID-19?; Donella Caspersz, Mare Stevanovski, and Pi-Shen Seet
Chapter 10. From Small Business to Large Family Business: Discussions around Development and Evolution of Companies in Latin America and Spain; Araceli Almaraz and Javier Vidal
Chapter 11. Knowledge on Boards of Directors of Family Firms: From Developed Economies to Latin America; Pedro Vázquez and Miguel Méndez
Chapter 12. Managing Paradoxes in Family Firms: A closer look at Public Politics in Spain; Remedios Hernández-Linares, Vanessa Diaz-Moriana, and Valeriano Sánchez-Famoso
Chapter 13. Family Business in Latin America: A Contextual Approach based on Three Cases from the Puuc Biocultural Region; Anel Flores-Novelo
Chapter 14. Enabling Family Business Resilience - The Role of Female Leadership: Evidence from a Chinese Family Business; Yong Wang and Yanshuang Li
Chapter 15. Sadism, Heterotopia, and Entrepreneurship: The Role of the “Family” in Family Business; R. Duncan M. Pelly and Melinda Roberson
Chapter 16. Power and Corruption in Family Business: Perspectives and Cases; Manjula S.Salimath and Leyla Orudzheva
Chapter 17. True Entrepreneur versus False Entrepreneur: Implications for Family Business; Rosa Azalea Canales García and Oscar Javier Montiel Méndez
Chapter 18. The Impact of Entrepreneurial Orientation on Debt Financing of Family Businesses: Evidence from Nigeria; Afusat Jaiyeola, Yong Wang, and Samia Mahmood
Testimonial (Family Business Consultant) Oscar Javier Montiel Méndez, Salvatore Tomaselli, and Argentina Soto Maciel
