Mona Ericson, Professor Emerita of Strategy and Organization and CeFEO Affiliated Professor, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden

‘With beautiful prose and thick description of place(s), time, context, space and bodies, Mona Ericson weaves together the socio-materiality and “being in the world” of five multi-generational family businesses from the Swedish region of Tällberg. Challenging dominant perspectives in family business research, the author builds a hermeneutic-phenomenological understanding of the social in relation to the material. In so doing, she invites us to “feel the worlds” of family business owners as they work, labour, live, love and play in the context of the lives of their parents and co-workers, their land, buildings, materials, and artefacts. This book brings to family business scholarship a valuable and richly-theorized analysis that will inspire researchers of all backgrounds and traditions to appreciate the emotional and material realities, affective moods, processes of subjection and practices of care that are central to the every-day lives of people involved in family businesses.’

• Contents: 1. Under the name of Tällberg 2. Family business as contexts and within contexts 3. Social and material, space and place 4. Narrative and story and a being-in-the-world methodology 5. The Siljanstrand, the Siljansgården and the Green Hotel story 6. The Klockargården story 7. The Åkerblads-Tällbergsgården story 8. An alternative approach to family business References Index

Mona Ericson, Professor Emerita of Strategy and Organization and CeFEO Affiliated Professor, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden

‘With beautiful prose and thick description of place(s), time, context, space and bodies, Mona Ericson weaves together the socio-materiality and “being in the world” of five multi-generational family businesses from the Swedish region of Tällberg. Challenging dominant perspectives in family business research, the author builds a hermeneutic-phenomenological understanding of the social in relation to the material. In so doing, she invites us to “feel the worlds” of family business owners as they work, labour, live, love and play in the context of the lives of their parents and co-workers, their land, buildings, materials, and artefacts. This book brings to family business scholarship a valuable and richly-theorized analysis that will inspire researchers of all backgrounds and traditions to appreciate the emotional and material realities, affective moods, processes of subjection and practices of care that are central to the every-day lives of people involved in family businesses.’

• Contents: 1. Under the name of Tällberg 2. Family business as contexts and within contexts 3. Social and material, space and place 4. Narrative and story and a being-in-the-world methodology 5. The Siljanstrand, the Siljansgården and the Green Hotel story 6. The Klockargården story 7. The Åkerblads-Tällbergsgården story 8. An alternative approach to family business References Index

Mona Ericson, Professor Emerita of Strategy and Organization and CeFEO Affiliated Professor, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden

‘With beautiful prose and thick description of place(s), time, context, space and bodies, Mona Ericson weaves together the socio-materiality and “being in the world” of five multi-generational family businesses from the Swedish region of Tällberg. Challenging dominant perspectives in family business research, the author builds a hermeneutic-phenomenological understanding of the social in relation to the material. In so doing, she invites us to “feel the worlds” of family business owners as they work, labour, live, love and play in the context of the lives of their parents and co-workers, their land, buildings, materials, and artefacts. This book brings to family business scholarship a valuable and richly-theorized analysis that will inspire researchers of all backgrounds and traditions to appreciate the emotional and material realities, affective moods, processes of subjection and practices of care that are central to the every-day lives of people involved in family businesses.’

• Contents: 1. Under the name of Tällberg 2. Family business as contexts and within contexts 3. Social and material, space and place 4. Narrative and story and a being-in-the-world methodology 5. The Siljanstrand, the Siljansgården and the Green Hotel story 6. The Klockargården story 7. The Åkerblads-Tällbergsgården story 8. An alternative approach to family business References Index