Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Contributors IX
4. 1 Business Families: An Introduction 1
5. Part I: Business Families as the Family Behind the Firm
6. 2 Family Businesses as Multiplex Relationships 31
7. 3 Family, Organization, and Network: A New Approach to a Systems Theory of the Business Family 49
8. 4 Resilient Enterprising Families 69
9. 5 Enterprising Families: An Embeddedness Perspective on Offspring’s Entrepreneurial Career Preferences, Cognitions, and Actions 81
10. 6 Kinship and Family Businesses on the Move: A Review and a Research Agenda 115
11. Part II: Business Families with Multiple Businesses
12. 7 Influence of Next-Generation Family Champions on New Venture Creation by Business Families: An Indian Perspective 135
13. 8 “All My Firms?” Managing SEW Affective Endowments in Business Family Portfolios 163
14. 9 Business Family Reputation, Internal Markets, and Holdup Agency Costs 187
15. 10 The Transformative Function of Weak Institutional Environments: The Case of Business Families in the Arab Middle East 201
16. 11 Evolutionary Long-Term Entrepreneurial Processes in Business Families 223
17. 12 Entrepreneurial Multi-Business Families – Evidence from Continental Europe 247
18. Part III: Governing the Business Family
19. 13 Introducing “Top Governance Teams”: Towards an Extension of the Family Business Cluster Model 275
20. 14 Codes of Governance for Family Businesses 309
21. 15 Family Office Research: A Primer 329
22. 16 Family Wealth Governance and the Role of Advisors 349
23. 17 How Can a Family Control its Business Without Ownership Influence? A Case Study of Suzuki Corp 369
24. 18 How Business Families Advance Their Members’ Careers: The Case of Show Business Families 397
25. Part IV: Institutionalization of Wealth and Business Families in Society
26. 19 Institutionalizing Family Legacy, Reproducing Dynasties 413
27. 20 The Varieties of Business Families: A Capitalist Class Perspective on Business Family Diversity 437
28. 21 Philanthropy Through Family Offices 465
29. 22 Traditional Authority in Social Context: Explaining the Relation between Types of Family and Types of Family-Controlled Business Groups 487
30. 23 Migrant Business Families in Central America 519
31. 24 Succession Process and the Model of Change in a Transgenerational Family Business 541
32. Part V: The Future of Business Families Research
33. 25 Business Families: Promising Future Research Directions 563
34. List of Figures 577
35. List of Tables 579
36. Index 581