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Contents:
Foreword
Miguel Angel Gallo
Introduction: The Business of Researching Family Enterprises
Panikkos Zata Poutziouris, Kosmas X. Smyrnios and Sabine B.
Klein
PART I: FRONTIERS OF A FAMILY BUSINESS
1. Navigating the Family Business Education Maze
Frank Hoy and Pramodita Sharma
2. An Overview of the Field of Family Business Studies: Current
Status and Directions for the Future
Pramodita Sharma
3. Family Businesses’ Contribution to the US Economy: A Closer
Look
Joseph H. Astrachan and Melissa Carey Shanker
PART II: THEORIZING FAMILY BUSINESSES AND BUSINESS FAMILIES
4. A Unified Systems Perspective of Family Firm Performance
Timothy G. Habbershon, Mary Williams and Ian C. MacMillan
5. The Family’s Dynamic Role within Family Business
Entrepreneurship
Ramona K.Z. Heck, Sharon M. Danes, Margaret A. Fitzgerald, George
W. Haynes, Cynthia R. Jasper, Holly L. Schrank, Kathryn Stafford
and Mary Winter
6. Critical Leader Relationships in Family Firms
Nigel Nicholson and Åsa Björnberg
7. Business Family as a Team: Underlying Force for Sustained
Competitive Advantage
Lorraine M. Uhlaner
8. Internal Factors of Family Business Performance: An Integrated
Theoretical Model
Alberto Gimeno Sandig, Gaston J. Labadie, Willem Saris and Xavier
Mendoza Mayordomo
PART III: FAMILY BUSINESS RESEARCH: METRICS AND METHODOLOGIES
9. The F-PEC Scale of Family Influence: A Proposal for Solving
the
Family Business Definition Problem
Joseph H. Astrachan, Sabine B. Klein and Kosmas X. Smyrnios
10. Identification of Different Types of Private Family Firms
Paul Westhead and Carole Howorth
11. From Vision to Variables: A Scorecard to Continue the
Professionalization of a Family Firm
Ken Moores and Justin Craig
12. Working with Families in Business: A Content Validity Study of
the
Aspen Family Business Inventory
Sandra L. Moncrief-Stuart, Joe Paul and Justin Craig
PART IV: FAMILY BUSINESS THEMES IN FOCUS
13. Founder–Successor’s Transition: A Model of Coherent Value
Transmission Paths
Ercilia García-Álvarez and Jordi López-Sintas
14. Understanding Strategizing in the Family Business Context
Annika Hall, Leif Melin and Mattias Nordqvist
15. The Professionalization of Family Firms: Theory and
Practice
Lucrezia Songini
16. Writing, Implementing and Maintaining Family Protocols
Miguel Angel Gallo and Salvatore Tomaselli
17. Generic Models for Family Business Boards of Directors
Joseph H. Astrachan, Andrew Keyt, Suzanne Lane and Kristi
McMillan
18. Effective Knowledge Transfer in Family Firms
Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodríguez and Josep Tàpies
19. Feuding Families: The Management of Conflict in Family
Firms
Franz W. Kellermanns and Kimberly A. Eddleston
PART V: FAMILY BUSINESS SUCCESSION
20. Lost in Time: Intergenerational Succession, Change and Failure
in
Family Business
Danny Miller, Lloyd Steier and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller
21. Towards a Business Family Dynasty: A Lifelong, Continuing
Process
Johan Lambrecht and Rik Donckels
22. Using the Strategic Planning Process as a Next-Generation
Training Tool in Family Business
Pietro Mazzola, Gaia Marchisio and Joseph H. Astrachan
23. An Integrated Framework for Testing the Success of the Family
Business Succession Process According to Gender Specificity
Vassilios D. Pyromalis, George S. Vozikis, Theodoros A.
Kalkanteras, Michaela E. Rogdaki and George P. Sigalas
PART VI FAMILY BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: GLOBAL AND TRANS-CULTURAL
ISSUES
24. Internationalization of Family Businesses through Strategic
Alliances: An Exploratory Study
Kristin Cappuyns
25. Family and Cultural Forces: Shaping Entrepreneurship and SME
Development in China
David Pistrui, Wilfred V. Huang, Harold P. Welsch and Zhao Jing
26. Board of Directors in Italian Public Family-Controlled
Companies
Guido Corbetta and Alessandro Minichilli
27. Family-Firm Relationships in Italian SMEs: Ownership and
Governance Issues in a Double-Fold Theoretical Perspective
Luca Gnan and Daniela Montemerlo
28. Longevity of Japanese Family Firms
Toshio Goto
PART VII: FAMILY BUSINESS FINANCE
29. Family Firms and Financial Behavior: How Family Shareholder
Preferences Influence Firms’ Financing
Myriam Lyagoubi
30. The Structure and Performance of the UK Family Business PLC
Economy
Panikkos Zata Poutziouris
31. Ownership Structure and Firm Performance: Evidence from Spanish
Family Firms
Susana Menéndez-Requejo
32. Family Ownership, Corporate Governance and Firm Value: Evidence
from the Spanish Market
María Sacristán Navarro and Silvia Gómez Ansón
Epilogue: Theory Building and the Survival of Family Firms – Three
Promising Research Directions
Shaker A. Zahra, Sabine B. Klein and Joseph H. Astrachan
Index
Edited by Panikkos Zata Poutziouris, Professor in Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Fellow, Circular Economy Centre, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK, Kosmas X. Smyrnios, formerly Professor of Family Business Entrepreneurship, School of Management, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia and Sabine B. Rau, ESMT, Germany
'The Handbook of Research on Family Business has collected and synthesized a broad variety of topics by notable researchers who share a common dedication to family business research. This Handbook provides a comprehensive treatment that advances the frontiers of knowledge in family business, provoking valuable thoughts and discussion. The Handbook will serve as both an authoritative and comprehensive reference work for researchers investigating family enterprises.' - A. Bakr Ibrahim, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada 'Although family business research is a young discipline it is both necessary and important. For the wellbeing and future development of our society the survival of prosperous and passionate family business entrepreneurs is indispensable. In order to help the families in business to better understand how to succeed with their enterprises we need qualified and updated research. This book is the answer!' - Hans-Jacob Bonnier, Bonnier Business Press Group, Sweden and 6th Generation Chairman of the Family Business Network - International 'This Handbook is a unique compilation of the most important and the best recent family business research. The field has grown so rapidly that this effort will be a mark for the research to follow. The Elgar Handbook of Research on Family Business will be the reference for scholars in family business for many years to come. It will also stimulate new ideas in research.' - John L. Ward, IMD, Switzerland and Northwestern University, US
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