Family Businesses in the Arab World Governance, Strategy, and Financing /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Basly, Sami (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Contributions to Management Science,
• Subjects: Business.; Ethnology > Middle East.; Corporate governance.; Family-owned business enterprises.; Leadership.; Globalization.; Markets.; Business and Management.; Family Business.; Middle Eastern Culture.; Emerging Markets/Globalization.; Corporate Governance.; Business Strategy/Leadership.

This book focuses on topics such as the cultural specificity of Arab family businesses with regard to shaping their governance and management; the influence that specific values in the Arab world could exert on the management of family businesses; how spiritual and religious values influence busines...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction to “Family Businesses in the Arab world”
• 2. Family Businesses in the Arab Economic context
• 3. Theorizing on Arab Family Businesses
• 4. Family capital and organizational resilience of the family firm in Tunisia
• 5. Moroccan Family Businesses: Specific Attributes, Logics of Action and Organizational Learning Dynamics
• 6. A Developing Country’s Perspective on the Internationalization Process of Family and non-Family Firms: the Case of Palestine
• 7. Socioemotional Approach: Exploring Women’s Guilt in An All-Female Egyptian Family Business
• 8. Financial Behaviour of Lebanese Family Firms during Political Crises
• 9. Impact of Institutional environment on the capital structure of Tunisian family firms
• 10. How can family firms attract foreign investors? The role of governance mechanisms in Tunisia
• 11. Founder Legacy in Arab Dynastic Entrepreneurship
• 12. Succession Planning in Family SMEs in Saudi Arabia: a descriptive study
• 13. Epilogue. The multiple embeddedness of family firms in the Arab World.