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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Denise E Fletcher |
| ISBN: | 0415250536 9780415250535 9780203472125 0203472128 |
| OCLC Number: | 49901938 |
| Description: | xiii, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The scale and nature of family businesses / Paul Westhead, Marc Cowling, David J. Storey and Carole Howorth -- Towards an understanding of strategy processes in small family businesses: a multi-rational perspective / Annika Hall -- Energising entrepreneurship: ideological tensions in the medium-sized family business / Bengt Johannisson -- Work-to-family conflict: a comparison of American and Australian family and non-family business owners / Kosmas X. Smyrnios, Claudio A. Romano, George A. Tanewski, Paul Karofsky, Robert Millen and Mustafa R. Yilmiaz. Understanding the emotional dynamics of family enterprises / Barbara Murray -- The dynamics of family firms: an institutional perspective on corfporate governance and strategic change / Mattias Nordqvist and Leif Melin -- The financial affairs of smaller family companies / Panikkos Zata Poutziouris -- Training the HRM strategies in small family-owned businesses: an empirical overview / Harry Matlay. The emergence of leaders in family business / Jill Thomas -- Eploring the connection: ethnic minority businesses and the family enterprise / Monder Ram and Trevor Jones -- A household-based approach to the small business family / Susan Baines, Jane Wheelock and Elizabeth Oughton -- Emotions and the moral order of farm business families in Finland / Saija Katila. |
| Series Title: | Routledge studies in small business, 8. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Denise E. Fletcher. |
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Abstract:
"It is estimated that family businesses comprise between 60 and 90 per cent of all firms in Europe and the United States. This book makes an important contribution to the understanding of small family firms, bringing together a number of key themes in management/organisation studies." "The contributions in this book explore the relationship between work and the family in the context of the small business. The contributors demonstrate the complexities of this relationship, arguing that it is ambiguous and shaped by contradictory yet complementary discourses of control and nurturing. These ambiguities and contradictions are examined through three dominant discourses - rational, resource-based and critical - which are identified as shaping the development of family business research over the past thirty years." "Drawing on an international range of studies, this book also points to the future of research in this area, and indicates how support and policy initiatives may be directed in the future."--BOOK JACKET.
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