De Gruyter Handbook of Business Families

The management field increasingly recognizes that most firms in the world are family firms and that these entities operate differently from the non-family firms on which most of our current management theories are based. The De Gruyter Handbook of Business Families brings together work from leading academics who explore emerging research themes relevant to business families, particularly drawing in new insights from adjacent disciplines that can advance the family business field. The handbook challenges the traditional notion of the "single firm–single family" that has characterized most early research on family business. Recognizing that families may simultaneously own or control multiple businesses as well as substantial wealth beyond these firms in the form of financial and non-financial assets, this handbook focuses on business families rather than the narrower construct of family business. The contributions in this handbook explore the relatively neglected dynamics between individuals with family ties that shape the interaction between family and business; business families with multiple businesses; how business families adopt formal rules and processes around their joint activities; and the institutionalization of wealth and business families in society. The De Gruyter Handbook of Business Families fills a gap in the family business research literature and is an essential reference work for researchers and graduate-level students in the area of business families

3 Family, Organization, and Network: A New Approach to a Systems Theory of the Business Family

5 Enterprising Families: An Embeddedness Perspective on Offspring's Entrepreneurial Career Preferences, Cognitions, and Actions

7 Influence of Next-Generation Family Champions on New Venture Creation by Business Families: An Indian Perspective

8 “All My Firms?” Managing SEW Affective Endowments in Business Family Portfolios

10 The Transformative Function of Weak Institutional Environments: The Case of Business Families in the Arab Middle East

13 Introducing “Top Governance Teams”: Towards an Extension of the Family Business Cluster Model

17 How Can a Family Control its Business Without Ownership Influence? A Case Study of Suzuki Corp

18 How Business Families Advance Their Members' Careers: The Case of Show Business Families

20 The Varieties of Business Families: A Capitalist Class Perspective on Business Family Diversity

22 Traditional Authority in Social Context: Explaining the Relation between Types of Family and Types of Family-Controlled Business Groups

24 Succession Process and the Model of Change in a Transgenerational Family Business