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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...
Conflicts have accompanied mankind since time immemorial, and for almost as long people have been trying to limit and deal with them – whether as those affected by them or as professionals with more or less success. For once a system of conflict has developed, once negative expectation structures and with them negative self-evident truths and inherent laws have developed, it becomes increasingly difficult for those involved to escape them: The complexity of our social world, in which it is not easy for communication to find its way, remains unseen. A violated sense of justice, misunderstandings and unfortunate attempts to correct them alternate. One begins to attribute the causes of the co...
Japanese family businesses are among the oldest in the world and many of them prove a history record of 200 years and more. Research on several case studies of century old firms (‘shinise’) in Japan reveal three factors as secrets of their longevity: (1) the Japanese family system (‘ie’) favours the eldest son for succession; (2) the option for adopting a capable successor; (3) the inclusion of the relationships with employees, customers, and members of the local community into the strategic decision making. The analysis deals with the succession process in Japan compared to the WIFU Model of Succession in German family firms, and rounds off with perspectives on how to deal with the challenges the Japanese family businesses face regarding the recent changes in the Japanese society.
Who will lead your organization into the future? Have you created the systems to properly implement required succession transitions? Have you put the financial tools in place to fund the transition? Do you want a plan that connects with your personal and company core values? When do you include timely planning related to strategy and talent issues? What are the appropriate communication strategies for sharing your plan? What legal issues need consideration related to the strategy, financial, and people aspects of succession? So, what is preventing you from starting this effort tomorrow? Small and family businesses are the bedrock of all businesses. More people are employed by small and famil...
Dieses Werk knüpft unmittelbar an den ersten Band "Beiträge zur Theorie des Familienunternehmens" an. Es enthält bereits veröffentlichte Beiträge, die zeitlos und von gegenwärtiger Relevanz sind. Im vorliegenden Band werden spezielle Problemfelder von Familienunternehmen betrachtet: Wie muss die Führung im Familienunternehmen agieren? Was ist im Krisenfall zu tun? Wie sollte sich eine Unternehmerfamilie organisieren? Was sind die Besonderheiten in der Beratung von Familienunternehmen?
Die Utz Gruppe mit Sitz im schweizerischen Bremgarten ist ein Familienunternehmen, das auf 75 bewegte Jahre zurückblickt. 1947 von Georg Utz gegründet, etablierte es sich erfolgreich in der schnell wachsenden Kunststoffbranche. Utz-Mehrwegbehälter sind heute auf der ganzen Welt in der automatisierten Logistik anzutreffen. Über 40 Jahre lang stand das Unternehmen unter der prägenden Führung des Firmengründers Georg Utz. Entsprechend anspruchsvoll gestaltete sich der Generationenwechsel sowie die Frage nach der Family Governance. In diesem Buch wird aus Sicht der heutigen Inhaberfamilie eindrücklich beschrieben, weshalb sich das Unternehmen noch immer mehrheitlich in ihrem Besitz befin...