Hans Sjögren is a professor at Linköping University and Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.

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• Chapter 1: Dynasties in the Age of CapitalismThe Lucky Sperm ClubMature and emerging dynastiesNordic dynastiesMissions to fulfilChapter 2: The Theory of DynastyPersonal, family-based and managerial capitalismFinancial and human capitalDynastic longingsChurchill's favourite marmalade?Ants and grasshoppersThe good life outside the stock marketA conceptual modelRelational capital and value creationHistorichal anchorChapter 3: New Industry LogicNordic dynastic entrepreneurship in the nineteenth centuryMerchant housesBanking and the bourgeoisieInter-war dynastiesEntrepreneurship in the countryside of JutlandPost-war dynastiesSociety modernizesFamily-based retailersInto the digital revolutionCountryside originsChapter 4: Strategy, Structure and DynamicsStick to what you know, or notA structural evolutionary patternConglomerates – a blind alleyBusiness groupsBonnier – back to basicsThe u-turn of LegoToo much tradition killsIn the wrong industry at the wrong timeContinuity and discontinuity with historical rootsChapter 5: Values and CredosServant of the people – Kamprad’s willRenewal and the national interest – the WallenbergsResolute leadershipSpotlight on customers – the Perssons, Rausings and Kann RasmussensThe devil is in the detailsWinning strategiesChapter 6: Blood is Everything – SuccessionFamily do or dieLonely spouses and cracks in the glass ceilingChanging role of womenShaky promises for the futureSibling rivalry A two-man show, or maybe notThe extended familySons-in-law and trials by fireCulture of leadershipFrictionless successionPassive owners without day-to-day management dutiesKinship triumphsChapter 7: Business, Politics and CulturePolitical effort and conservative resistanceTo ease the tax burdensWelfare system alliancesA long tradition of mutual benefitGive and take – a question of cultureChapter 8: ConclusionThe weight of traditionThe future of dynasties – local is global

Hans Sjögren is a professor at Linköping University and Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.

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• Chapter 1: Dynasties in the Age of CapitalismThe Lucky Sperm ClubMature and emerging dynastiesNordic dynastiesMissions to fulfilChapter 2: The Theory of DynastyPersonal, family-based and managerial capitalismFinancial and human capitalDynastic longingsChurchill's favourite marmalade?Ants and grasshoppersThe good life outside the stock marketA conceptual modelRelational capital and value creationHistorichal anchorChapter 3: New Industry LogicNordic dynastic entrepreneurship in the nineteenth centuryMerchant housesBanking and the bourgeoisieInter-war dynastiesEntrepreneurship in the countryside of JutlandPost-war dynastiesSociety modernizesFamily-based retailersInto the digital revolutionCountryside originsChapter 4: Strategy, Structure and DynamicsStick to what you know, or notA structural evolutionary patternConglomerates – a blind alleyBusiness groupsBonnier – back to basicsThe u-turn of LegoToo much tradition killsIn the wrong industry at the wrong timeContinuity and discontinuity with historical rootsChapter 5: Values and CredosServant of the people – Kamprad’s willRenewal and the national interest – the WallenbergsResolute leadershipSpotlight on customers – the Perssons, Rausings and Kann RasmussensThe devil is in the detailsWinning strategiesChapter 6: Blood is Everything – SuccessionFamily do or dieLonely spouses and cracks in the glass ceilingChanging role of womenShaky promises for the futureSibling rivalry A two-man show, or maybe notThe extended familySons-in-law and trials by fireCulture of leadershipFrictionless successionPassive owners without day-to-day management dutiesKinship triumphsChapter 7: Business, Politics and CulturePolitical effort and conservative resistanceTo ease the tax burdensWelfare system alliancesA long tradition of mutual benefitGive and take – a question of cultureChapter 8: ConclusionThe weight of traditionThe future of dynasties – local is global