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This book focuses on a central success factor for family businesses: maintaining the decision-making ability over generations while not jeopardizing the business due to family conflict, inefficient governance structures, or lack of identification. The authors identify that this is not as easy as the endeavor to bring two social systems together with contradicting logic (family and business) leads to many dangerous pitfalls. This book presents outcomes of a unique research project in which family managers of eleven of the oldest and largest German family businesses, at least the fourth generation, met for more than three years on a regular basis and presented the essence of their family gover...
This book deals with dynastic business families. Such families are characterized by a circle of owners comprising more than 50 family members, which typically face specific issues and challenges for which there has been little research knowledge and practical approaches until now. The book presents results and findings from a special research project on “big family management” where 7 representatives of dynastic families from Germany were studied over a 3-year period. The result was the identification of six topic areas that management in these business families has to deal with. At the same time, the study observes that dynastic business families hardly follow the logic of classic families anymore, but can rather be understood as networks with common family backgrounds. The study also reveals that a large number of business families are heading for large shareholder groups due to changed inheritance practices. The contents outlined here provide an orientation framework for the growing business family.
This edited volume provides an anthropological study of family businesses and business families. In previous research on family firms and business families, the comparative cross-cultural approach of anthropology has so far received little attention. As a result, family firms and business families are too often analyzed without considering cultural and kinship differences adequately. Similarly, although the topics of kinship and the economy are central to anthropological analysis, research on family firms and business families has been a marginal topic only that lacks in-depth discussions within anthropology. This volume breaks the mold by offering new empirical and theoretical insights into...
This volume presents a comparative study on the pivotal role of religion in social transformation of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) over the past three decades. Organized into four thematic sections, it examines divergent patterns of religiosity and non-religious worldviews, secularization, religious presence in public life, and processes of identity formation. Comparison across the countries in the CEE reveals the absence of uniform and synchronic dynamics in the region. The geopolitical and cultural heterogeneity, the need to understand post-1989 social processes in the context of a much longer historical development of the region, and the importance of incorporating religious factors — are central to all contributions in this volume. Contributors are: Mikhail Antonov, Olga Breskaya, Zsuzsanna Demeter-Karászi, Jan Kaňák, Alar Kilp, Zsófia Kocsis, Tobias Koellner, Valéria Markos, András Máté-Tóth, Jerry G. Pankhurst, Gabriella Pusztai, Ringo Ringvee, Ariane Sadjed, Marjan Smrke, Miroslav Tížik, David Václavík, Jan Váně, Marko Veković, and Siniša Zrinščak.
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...
Krisen erkennen – Restrukturieren – Krisen überwinden Tiefe Einschnitte in die Organisation und strategische Neuausrichtung – auch Familienunternehmen sind in Krisensituationen zu dramatischen Schritten gezwungen. Doch hinzu kommt der Faktor Familie, der sich massiv auf die Sanierungsfähigkeit dieser Unternehmen auswirken kann. In diesem Werk, herausgegeben von Tom A. Rüsen, werden die Chancen und Risiken der Krisenbewältigung speziell für Familienunternehmen ausgelotet. Sie erfahren unter anderem,?welche Besonderheiten für Familienunternehmen allgemein und in überlebenskritischen Situationen gelten, - wie verschiedene Unternehmerfamilien mit Krisensituationen umgegangen sind und - wie Sie tragfähige Lösungsansätze für die Restrukturierung von Familienunternehmen in der Praxis entwickeln können. Vom Hausbank-Prinzip über Interim-Management und Coaching bis zu M&A-Transaktionen: Das Werk enthält wertvolle Gestaltungsvorschläge für Familienunternehmer, aber auch Krisenmanager und Sanierungsberater. Mit aufschlussreichen Erfahrungsberichten von Unternehmern, Krisenmanagern und Kapitalgebern!
English summary: Due to their special architecture, their structural coupling potential of the different systems of families and firms, family businesses have a very specific conflict potential. The conflicts potentially arising thereof might cause the failure of the family business as a whole. The conflict process within the family businesses in this context is characterized as a complex interaction of interdependencies. Without an adequate conflict management including both preventive as well as curative elements, family businesses will be at the risk of favoring existential conflicts or not being able to meet these sufficiently. German description: Familienunternehmen besitzen aufgrund ih...
After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is time to rehabilitate utopian thought. The political concept of Utopia that has given its name to these transcendental projections onto the world has been too narrow to describe and analyze the moving forces of the mind perceiving human existence beyond reality. By broadening the perspectives of utopian studies, these essays enable the reader to reconstruct scholarly paradigms and strategies of utopian, complex and holistic thinking in modern cosmology, philosophy, sociology, in literary, historical and political sciences, and to compare traditions and ways of Western utopian thought to the practice in the East.
Hauptbeschreibung Wie kann die Geschäftsführung von Familienunternehmen mit Paradoxien umgehen, Unternehmenswirklichkeiten entsprechend sprachlich gestalten und damit überzeugen? Das ist die leitende Frage dieses Buches. Ziel ist, ein Instrument zur Analyse sowie zur Erstellung von Unternehmerreden zu entwerfen - das Scenic Radar. Seine drei dimensionalen Achsen leiten sich aus Konfliktlinien in Familienunternehmen ab und integrieren sie: Emotionalität versus Rationalität, Tradition versus Progression und Konstruktivität versus Destruktivität. Je nach Fokus der Rede(teile) schlägt d.