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This is one of the first books of its kind to highlight family firms in a Latin American context, helping students to understand the distinctive nature and challenges of Latin American family businesses and how these issues compare to family businesses around the world.Building on their experience in teaching, research, speaking, and consulting on the subject of family firms in Latin America, the editors explain the need to implement and adapt traditional frameworks in the changing Latin American reality. Each section provides background on the most important topics in the management of family firms, including strategy, entrepreneurship, and performance, followed by illustrative cases and a discussion of how this knowledge is similar to or different from other parts of the world.The book’s clear writing and in-depth approach will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students of international business, business in Latin America, and family business.

This is one of the first books of its kind to highlight family firms in a Latin American context, helping students to understand the distinctive nature and challenges of Latin American family businesses and how these issues compare to family businesses around the world.Building on their experience in teaching, research, speaking, and consulting on the subject of family firms in Latin America, the editors explain the need to implement and adapt traditional frameworks in the changing Latin American reality. Each section provides background on the most important topics in the management of family firms, including strategy, entrepreneurship, and performance, followed by illustrative cases and a discussion of how this knowledge is similar to or different from other parts of the world.The book’s clear writing and in-depth approach will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students of international business, business in Latin America, and family business.

The intertwining of family relationships with business imperatives provides a fascinating but complex arena for study. This Encyclopedia is a valuable resource because family business studies are necessarily multi-disciplinary and wide-ranging, drawing on entrepreneurship, management, governance, economics, ethics, business history, as well as family studies.The Encyclopedia includes contributions from over 60 international experts who provide thoughtful and concise explanations of topics that are vital to understanding family businesses. Together, they explain 115 of the most significant family business topics, including key theories, issues and practices, encompassing a multitude of perspectives on the positive and negative impacts that family ownership and management might have on businesses and society. Comprehensive cross-referencing facilitates a broader understanding of intertwining, overlaps and boundaries between topics.Key Features:Expert contributions from over 60 international family business specialistsNew insights into the complex, multi-disciplinary and wide-ranging world of family businessExpert insights from entrepreneurship, management, governance, economics, ethics, business history and family studiesThe Encyclopedia will be invaluable for anyone seeking clear explanations of family business topics, whether to put into practice, extend understanding or explore issues anew.

A useful tool for those researching small businesses, organisation, and business strategy, this book highlights the key advantages of family business group structures in both developed and developing countries, and local and national contexts.

Family business groups (FBGs) are ubiquitous, influential, and play a major role in national economies. An important resource for students and researchers of family business, strategy and management, this Handbook signals the emergence of the family business group phenomenon and solidifies research in this evolving area of study.

Family business groups (FBGs) are ubiquitous, influential, and play a major role in national economies. An important resource for students and researchers of family business, strategy and management, this Handbook signals the emergence of the family business group phenomenon and solidifies research in this evolving area of study.