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Elgar Encyclopedia of Family Business
The intertwining of family relationships with business imperatives provides a fascinating but complex arena for study. This Encyclopedia is a valuable resource because family business studies are necessarily multi-disciplinary and wide-ranging, drawing on entrepreneurship, management, governance, economics, ethics, business history, as well as family studies.
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The intertwining of family relationships with business imperatives provides a fascinating but complex arena for study. This Encyclopedia is a valuable resource because family business studies are necessarily multi-disciplinary and wide-ranging, drawing on entrepreneurship, management, governance, economics, ethics, business history, as well as family studies.
The Encyclopedia includes contributions from over 60 international experts who provide thoughtful and concise explanations of topics that are vital to understanding family businesses. Together, they explain 115 of the most significant family business topics, including key theories, issues and practices, encompassing a multitude of perspectives on the positive and negative impacts that family ownership and management might have on businesses and society. Comprehensive cross-referencing facilitates a broader understanding of intertwining, overlaps and boundaries between topics.
Key Features:
• Expert contributions from over 60 international family business specialists
• New insights into the complex, multi-disciplinary and wide-ranging world of family business
• Insights from entrepreneurship, management, governance, economics, ethics, business history and family studies
The Encyclopedia will be invaluable for anyone seeking clear explanations of family business topics, whether to put into practice, extend understanding or explore issues anew.
The Encyclopedia includes contributions from over 60 international experts who provide thoughtful and concise explanations of topics that are vital to understanding family businesses. Together, they explain 115 of the most significant family business topics, including key theories, issues and practices, encompassing a multitude of perspectives on the positive and negative impacts that family ownership and management might have on businesses and society. Comprehensive cross-referencing facilitates a broader understanding of intertwining, overlaps and boundaries between topics.
Key Features:
• Expert contributions from over 60 international family business specialists
• New insights into the complex, multi-disciplinary and wide-ranging world of family business
• Insights from entrepreneurship, management, governance, economics, ethics, business history and family studies
The Encyclopedia will be invaluable for anyone seeking clear explanations of family business topics, whether to put into practice, extend understanding or explore issues anew.
Critical Acclaim
‘This Elgar Encyclopedia is a must have on the bookshelf of family business experts. Besides thoroughly covering all foundational issues, it offers an intellectually challenging and encompassing view on family firms grounded in their heterogeneity and in the emergence of several novel phenomena that are deeply affecting these fascinating organizations.’
– Carlo Salvato, Bocconi University, Italy
‘The Elgar Encyclopedia of Family Business is a unique volume in several ways. Professors Carole Howorth and Allan Discua Cruz, two leading scholars in the family business field, have taken on the extraordinary task of compiling an encyclopedia of the most important words and concepts associated with contemporary family business research. Featuring entries from many of the leading family business researchers in the world, the result is an as impressive as comprehensive volume of key insights that will serve as a fundamental academic source of knowledge for all family business scholars.’
– Mattias Nordqvist, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
– Carlo Salvato, Bocconi University, Italy
‘The Elgar Encyclopedia of Family Business is a unique volume in several ways. Professors Carole Howorth and Allan Discua Cruz, two leading scholars in the family business field, have taken on the extraordinary task of compiling an encyclopedia of the most important words and concepts associated with contemporary family business research. Featuring entries from many of the leading family business researchers in the world, the result is an as impressive as comprehensive volume of key insights that will serve as a fundamental academic source of knowledge for all family business scholars.’
– Mattias Nordqvist, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Contributors
Contributors include: Jan-Phillip Ahrens, Naveed Akhter, Keanon Jay Alderson, Matt Allen, Hanna Almlöf, Cristina Alvarado, Theresa Arnold, Joseph H. Astrachan, Elizabeth Bagger, Jia Bao, Mary Barrett, Rodrigo Basco, Florian Bauer, Fabian Bernhard, Navneet Bhatnagar, Juliana M. Binhote, Claudia Binz Astrachan, Isabel Botero, Keith Brigham, Mara Brumana, Ethel Brundin, Kirsten Brøndsted Bullock, M. Katiuska Cabrera-Suárez, Andrea Calabrò, Giovanna Campopiano, Emmadonata Carbone, Michael Carney, Jesus Casado, José C. Casillas-Bueno, John James Cater III, Preman Chandranathan, James J. Chrisman, Jess Chua, Alessandro Cirillo, Eric Clinton, Andrea Colli, Justin Craig, Cristina Cruz, Sharon M. Danes, Joshua J. Daspit, James H. Davis, Alexandra Dawson, Alfredo De Massis, Dianna Dempsey, Vanessa Diaz-Moriana, Clay Dibrell, Marleen Dieleman, Paraskevi Dimakou, Allan Discua Cruz, Patricio Duran, Brianna Elizondo, Maria Elo, Mariana Estrada-Robles, Martin Euwema, Lina Eze, Catherine M. Faherty, Hanqing “Chevy” Fang , Tomasz A. Fediuk, Neus Feliu Costa, Feranita Feranita, Denise Fletcher, Bingbing Ge, Daniela Gimenez-Jimenez, Alberto Gimeno, Chris Graves, Judy Green, Vipin Gupta, Kajsa Haag, Elias Hadjielias, Eleanor Hamilton, Jarna Heinonen, Teresa Hogan, Daniel T. Holt, Carole Howorth, Mathew (Mat) Hughes, Tuuli Ikäheimonen, Chiziterem E. Iwumune, Sarah L. Jack, Albert E. James, Alex Kevill, Heiko Kleve, Josip Kotlar, Andrea Kuiken, Rania Labaki, Amanda Lawson, Claire M. Leitch, G.T. Lumpkin, Hans Lundberg, Amaia Maseda, Colin Mason, Olimpia Meglio, Eduardo Meléndez, Nava Michael-Tsabari, Anneleen Michiels, Tommaso Minola, Fabio Matuoka Mizumoto, Claudio G. Muller, Timothy J. Nichol, Henrietta Onwuegbuzie, Dermot O''Reilly, Marcelo Ortiz M., Maria Jose Parada, G. Tyge Payne, Fabien Pecot, Torsten M. Pieper, Timo Pihkala, Daniel Pittino, Markus Plate, Miruna Radu-Lefebvre, Kavil Ramachandran, Marcela Ramírez-Pasillas, Kathleen Randerson, Marita Rautinanen, Valentina Re, John Rogers, Emanuela Rondi, Paul Sanchez-Ruiz, Louise Scholes, Augusto Sequeiros Pumar, Sanjay Sharma, Pramodita Sharma, Jeremy C. Short, Sadek Showkat, Brett Smith, Lucrezia Songini, Nathalie Spielmann, Lloyd P. Steier, Sonia M. Strano, Elizabeth Tetzlaff, Kiran Trehan, Lorraine M. Uhlaner, Judith van Helvert-Beugels, Pedro Vazquez, Lien Vekemans, Arist von Schlippe, Paul Westhead, Jelle Westrik, Deanna L. Williamson, Saisai Wu, Ramona Kay Zachary