The family business arena is dynamic. Family business owners, managers, and practitioners need to be aware of changing management approaches, processes, and strategies to allow them to respond to global competition in an increasingly chaotic world - as emphasised by the COVID-19 pandemic - whilst maintaining their businesses unique character, culture, and attributes. Family Business Debates provides a novel, ground-breaking approach to diverse and contemporary topics in current business management research, focusing on family enterprises to study both the positive and negative aspects of such commercial structures.

Each chapter explores specific themes as they relate to family businesses and the authors developing a comprehensive and far-reaching perspective of family businesses from experts around the world, showcasing highly controversial topics in today's global debate within family business and management.

Offering unrivalled coverage of contemporary aspects of family business, Family Business Debates offers a unique focus on theory and applied research in family firms, particularly considering and reviewing the impact of research on policy and practice globally. It aims to communicate the latest family business research and knowledge worldwide for the benefit of scholars and family business practitioners.

About the Author

Oscar Javier Montiel Mendez is Professor of Management at Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez (UACJ). He obtained his PhD on Management Sciences at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). He is a member of Mexico's National System of Researchers (CONACYT, Level 1).

Salvatore Tomaselli is Professor of Business Administration at the Universita di Palermo, Italy. A founding member and fellow of IFERA, he served on the Board of EURAM from 2015 to 2017.

Argentina Soto Maciel is Professor of Business Administration at the Business and Economics School, Universidad Anahuac Mexico.

Reviews

In "Family Business Debates: Multidimensional Perspectives Across Countries, Continents and Geo-political Frontiers", the authors propose an exploratory journey in 18 stages towards one of the founding territories, and paradoxically less studied, of our economic system, the family business. The interaction of two complex systems, such as family and business, is addressed in this very interesting book, which first analyzes this confluence from a philosophical and sociological perspective and then illustrates the development of this business model in various geographies. The result? An essential text for those who want to understand the dynamics of family business, either for academic purposes or as support for their professional practice.

-- Alejandro Javier Rosa, Partner in PwC Argentina

This book deepens through the contribution of relevant researchers and academics from around the world, fully reflecting the effort to generate valuable knowledge about a key sector in the current business world. Each chapter involves a crucial and controversial issue of the family business based on reflection, debate and analysis. Covers its idiosyncrasy in different countries, governance, social dimensions, good and bad practices, the entrepreneurship factor, among other themes.

Complexity and exhaustive coverage of strategies, approaches, actions for those who manage family businesses in today's complex world, or for those who are interest to discuss, learn and internalize about the subject. The authors have made a unique, contemporary and innovative contribution that will leave its mark on the challenging future of family businesses.

-- Fabiana Gadow, CEO of Korn Ferry Argentina

This book has been written mainly by new family business scholars from many different places worldwide and brings a new multidimensional and multicultural research agenda. The main objective is to have a high-quality debate between various stakeholders of the family business ecosystem. Academics will find fascinating insights about doing better research in a challenging environment and give examples of case studies that could bring exciting frameworks to the field. For practitioners, they will find valuable ideas to manage their organization through the complexity of the family firms and therefore survive this 5th wave. Some of these primary aspects discussed in the book are factors that influence the continuity of the organization, like how to create a good entrepreneur culture, strategies to become a large firm and how to implement corporate governance in a better way, avoiding bad practices as the concentration of power and corruption. Finally, for policy makers, there are good ideas to endorse family businesses in these new ecosystems. Therefore, I would like to congratulate my colleagues on this initiative that helps our field preserve our family businesses.

-- Gonzalo Gomez-Betancourt; Ph.D, CEO Legacy & Management Consulting Group and Legacy School of Ownership.

"Family Business Debate" is an exciting journey between the theory of the researcher and the practice of the consultant who works with business families. With innovative, current topics and, in many cases, courageous approaches, the book explores little-known aspects of this type of organization. I know several of the authors of the articles, and I can assure you that, as writers, they have put their best into this work to ensure quality and adequate impact on the reader. If you are looking for multicultural perspectives to guide you in understanding today's family businesses, this book is one of the best choices.

-- Guillermo Salazar, Founder of Exaudi Family Business Consulting.



Book Information
ISBN 9781801176675
Author Oscar Montiel
Format Hardback
Page Count 416
Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
Weight(grams) 723g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 27mm