Family Business

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-66908-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 1792 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 3300 g

Reihe: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management

Until the early 1980s, serious academic research on family businesses was sparse, to say the least. The scholarship that did exist was primarily based on anecdotal evidence, and mostly biased toward the negative effects of family involvement, particularly in terms of nepotism and family feuds undermining a firm’s performance and familial relationships. Considered at best an example for how not to manage a business, family business was deemed not worthy of scientific attention. This has changed dramatically over the past three decades and this new Routledge Major Works collection provides users with background knowledge about the foundations of family-business theory and research, as well as a sense of its theoretical and empirical variety. Edited and with a new introduction by a team of leading scholars, the four volumes assemble the very best and most influential works in family business to provide an authoritative research resource.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Astrachan, Joseph

McMillan, Kristi

Pieper, Torsten

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: History and Development of the Field

Part 2. Early Writings

Part 3. Theoretical Foundations

Part 4. Recent Conceptual Work

Part 5. Most Impactful Research

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Joseph H. Astrachan is the executive director of the Cox Family Enterprise Center, holds the Wachovia Eminent Scholar Chair of Family Business and is Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at Kennesaw State University. He served as editor of Family Business Review for 16 years and is the Editor-in-Chief of the new Elsevier title Journal of Family Business Strategy. Dr Astrachan is also an editorial board member of several other academic journals and an internationally recognized scholar in the field of family business. Kristi S. McMillan is the director of the Cox Family Enterprise Center at Kennesaw State University. Her areas of expertise in family business are sibling relationships, con½ict resolution, raising responsible children, and building family cohesion. Ms McMillan has a Master of Science in Con½ict Management and is co-author of the acclaimed book Con½ict and Communication in the Family Business. Dr Torsten M. Pieper is the director of research at the Cox Family Enterprise Center and Assistant Professor Management and Entrepreneurship at Kennesaw State University. His research is in the areas of family business and strategic management. Dr Pieper is the Assistant Editor of the new Elsevier title Journal of Family Business Strategy.