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Global Family Capitalism A Business History Perspective
Emphasizing the diversity of regional and national models, this book explores the history of transformation of family businesses around the world during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Expert contributors explore place-based family capitalism and the local embeddedness of family businesses, looking at how and why this family capitalism was transformed during the globalization and de-globalization periods in the last century. It explores the variation in the adaptations and transformation undertaken by family businesses in response to changes in technology, globalization, ideology, and institutions, as well as world wars, pandemics and economic crises. The book also evaluates the relationship between changes in the internal organization and strategies of family businesses with external forces such as the political ideologies, changing ideas about the very nature of what constitutes a family, and changes in how the State has perceived families and family businesses in the world. The book also shows that despite all profound transformations in family capitalism, these businesses have remained resilient entrepreneurial forces and strong creators of wealth and employment.
This book will be of great interest to readers in business and economic history, family business and entrepreneurship.
Introduction.Family Business History: A Bibliometric Approach (1949-2023)
Teresa Mateo, José M. Ortiz-Villajos and Paloma Fernández Pérez
PART ONE. Family Business History in Europe and the United States
Chapter 1. Family Capitalism in Comparative Perspective: Germany and the USA
Hartmut Berghoff and Ingo Köhler
Chapter 2. French Family Firms Since the End of World War II: From Difficult Survival to New Specialties and a Potential of Dynamics
Patrick Fridenson
Chapter 3. Exploring the Importance of Place in Family Businesses: Evidence from the UK
Niall G. MacKenzie and Nicholas D. Wong
Chapter 4. Family Firms in the Netherlands: Outdated and Secretive, or Resilient and Sustainable?
Ewout J. Hasken and Keetie Sluyterman
Chapter 5. Large Family Businesses: The Nordic Case
Hans Sjögren
Chapter 6. Families, Firms and Growth: Paradoxes of Italian Capitalism
Andrea Colli
Chapter 7. Family Businesses in Modern Spain, 1939-2023
Paloma Fernández Pérez and Juan Francisco Corona
Chapter 8. Greek Family Business of the Tertiary Sector, 19th-20th Centuries: Shipping and Tourism
Gelina Harlaftis and Aimilia Vlani
PART TWO. Family Business History in Asia
Chapter 9. Historical Dynamics of the Family System and Family Business in Japan
Hideaki Sato and Takafumi Kurosawa
Chapter 10. Family Capitalism in South Korea: Realities and Limitations
Dominique Barjot
Chapter 11. The Changing Nature of Chinese Family Firms and the Enduring Character of Chinese Business Families
Carles Brasó Broggi and Yuan Jia-Zheng
Chapter 12. Family Businesses in India: History and the Future
Tirthankar Roy
PART THREE. Family Business History in Latin America
Chapter 13. Entrepreneurship and Survival: Narratives and Voices of Argentinean Large Family Businesses
Andrea Lluch
Chapter 14. Family Business Groups in Central America: From Local Markets to the Internationalization, 1980-2020
Javier Vidal, Lissette Canales and Candelaria Saiz
Chapter 15. Large Family Business in Mexico: Legacy and Longevity
Araceli Almaraz Alvarado
Chapter 16. Colombian Family Capitalism in the Twentieth Century: Business Heterogeneity, Strategic Behavior, and Growth
Beatriz Rodríguez-Satizábal and Julio César Zuloaga
Chapter 17. From a Large Family Business to a Heterogeneous Business Structure: Business Family and the State in Peru, 1890-2020
Martin Monsalve Zanatti
PART FOUR. Family Business History in Africa
Chapter 18. For Family and Country: Enduring Entrepreneurial Family Firms in South Africa in the Twentieth Century
Grietjie Verhoef
Chapter 19. A Historical Perspective of North African, Levantine, and Gulf Family Businesses in the 20th Century
Israa Mahgoub, Martin Klimke, Farida El Agamy and Shereen El Agamy
Biography
Paloma Fernández Pérez is Professor of Economic and Business History at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
