The Organizational Form of Family Business

2000
ISBN: 978-0-7923-7939-3
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1030 g

attempts to develop an evolutionary family business theory, positioning family businesses as a distinct organizational form (based on conjectures from organizational ecology). An open and uninhibited playing field - achieved through utilizing a grounded theory methodology - heightens chances for observing precisely how family businesses behave.
An introductory chapter is followed by a literature review, beginning with a review of family business research. This is followed by a discussion of family business definitional issues, and accompanied by some data to show the economic importance of family business.
There follows a review of the research literature on grounded theory, its developments, and its epistemological and ontological assumptions in the light of contemporary philosophy of science. A literature review and historical outline of organizational ecology including the theoretical achievements is provided. Also, the comparison with the other main organizational theories, justifying the theory selection, is offered.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bornheim, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Selbstständige & Freiberufler
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Kleine und Mittlere Unternehmen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 1.1 Family Business.- 1.2 Grounded Theory.- 1.3 Organizational Ecology.- 1.4 The General Scope of this Research.- 1.5 Outlook.- 2. Literature Review.- 2.1 Family Business.- 2.2 Grounded Theory.- 2.3 Organizational Ecology.- 2.4 The European Union.- 2.5 A Summary of Implications for this Research.- 3. Methodology.- 3.1 Formal Description.- 3.2 Basic Grounded Theory Procedures.- 3.3 The secondary data.- 3.4 The Utilization of Grounded Theory and Ecological Conjectures in Family Business.- 4. Results.- 4.1 Presentation of Cases.- 4.2 The Model.- 4.3 The Core Elements as Found Embedded in the Case Data.- 4.4 The Statistical Analysis of the Interstratos Data.- 5. Discussion.- 5.1 The Refined Model.- 5.2 Validation of the Refined Model Through Interstratos.- 5.3 Caveats.- 5.4 Future Research.- 5.5 Summary and Concluding Questions.- 6. Bibliography.