Family Business

Riar, Frederik J.; Kellermanns, Franz W. (2021). Family Business. In: Dana, Léo-Paul (ed.) World Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship (pp. 289-294). UK: Edward Elgar Publishing

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Family firms are essential to both emerging and advanced economies. Nearly 90% of all firms worldwide are family firms and outnumber non-family firms in terms of their contribution to global economic activity and employment. Due to the high relevance of family firms for the worldwide economy, scholars have recognized family business as a research field. This chapter provides a brief overview on family business research including a discussion of family firm definitions and family firm originations as well as a description of family firm behavior and family firms’ unique idiosyncratic goals. The chapter concludes with ideas for future research. Specifically, it emphasizes that family firms are now recognized as heterogeneous in the literature rather than characterized as a uniform block, and that this underlying heterogeneity offers multifarious opportunities for future research endeavors.

Item Type:

Book Section (Book Chapter)

Division/Institute:

03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Business Management > Institute of Organization and Human Resource Management > Human Resource Management
03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Business Management > Institute of Organization and Human Resource Management

UniBE Contributor:

Riar, Frederik

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics
600 Technology > 650 Management & public relations

ISBN:

978-1-83910-413-8

Publisher:

Edward Elgar Publishing

Language:

English

Submitter:

Frederik Johannes Riar

Date Deposited:

06 May 2022 09:10

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:13

Additional Information:

2nd edition

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/166952

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/166952

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