Understanding Family-Owned Business Groups Towards a Pluralistic Approach /

• Main Author: Del Giudice, Manlio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Democracy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship for Growth
• Subjects: Business.; Corporate governance.; Family-owned business enterprises.; Globalization.; Markets.; International economics.; Business and Management.; Family Business.; Corporate Governance.; Emerging Markets/Globalization.; International Economics.

This book addresses the increasing prominence of family-owned business groups and their potential to influence growth and development in the global economy. Family businesses are not necessarily converging towards unitary models of corporate governance or organizational designs, but remain heterogen...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Untangling the Origins of Family Business
• 2. Family Business Between Family and Business: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
• 3. From Family Businesses to Business Groups
• 4. Emerging Markets: Institutional Problems and Entrepreneurial Models
• 5. Business Groups in Emerging Markets.