Product Description: Managing the transition of family wealth from generation to generation is a daunting task. Families with businesses require inheritance plans that are even more complicated because wealth and worth are often intricately woven into the business...read more

Product Description: A volume in Research in Entrepreneurship and Management Series Editor John E. Butler, University of Hawaii at Manoa Until recently, research in family business has been confined to a sub-group of entrepreneurship scholars, labor economists, and sociologists...read more

Product Description: International Entrepreneurship in Family Businesses illustrates that family firms have always been active agents in the global economy and that their participation in the international competitive dynamic will only increase in the coming years...read more

Product Description: Freewheeling capitalism or collectivist communism: when it came to political-economic systems, did the twentieth century present any other choice? Does our century? In Third Ways, social historian Allan Carlson tells the story of how different thinkers from Bulgaria to Great Britain created economic systems during the twentieth century that were by intent neither capitalist nor communist...read more

Product Description: "The Handbook of Research on Family Business" provides a comprehensive first port of call for those wishing to survey progress in the theory and practice of family business research. In response to the extensive growth of family business as a topic of academic inquiry, the principal objective of the Handbook is to provide an authoritative and scholarly overview of current thinking in this multidisciplinary field...read more

Product Description: The family business has been the most prevalent and pervasive form of business in many countries and raises particular questions concerning succession and governance and in particular the relationships between management, board members and family members...read more

Product Description: The family business is a global phenomenon, and is particularly prominent in tourism and hospitality. In many cases, the family business was developed for the purpose of facilitating personal and family goals. For example, in rural areas, farmers can use tourism as a way to generate additional income, thereby remaining in the area and retaining family property...read more

Product Description: Learn how to keep family problems from affecting the family business! Reconciling Relationships and Preserving the Family Business: Tools for Success presents a comprehensive model for reconciling fractured relationships within the business-owning family...read more

Product Description: In raising probing questions about the relationship between gender power, class power and enterprise, this book brings a new and insightful perspective to the study of family capitalism. Mulholland explores the links between class as a resource and enterprise, the connections between the organization of the sexual division of labor and enterprise, the relationship between masculinity and enterprise and the manner in which emotional labor and domesticity also contribute to the construction of business...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

It's a simple, best-selling combination that's worked for over 20 years -- short, accessible essays and helpful, thorough writing instruction. Models for Writers continues to offer thought-provoking selections organized to demonstrate not only the rhetorical patterns that students will use in their own essays but also the elements and language that will make those essays effective. With a wide variety of new selections and new attention to sentence grammar, reading comprehension, and critical thinking, the new edition of Models for Writers once again stakes its claim as America's best-selling short essay reader.

Product Description: Benetton is the story of an extraordinary family and the business they have built from humble origins to a skilfully orchestrated worldwide phenomenon. No other team name has such an ability to charm and shock, to subvert and yet preach conformism, to blend radicalism with capitalism, as Benetton...read more

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Product Description: Family businesses, which have been instrumental in the industrialization of most countries, remain an important dimension of modern economies world-wide. Yet analyses of international differences in Western micro- and macro-economic performance, since the late 19th century, have usually been focused upon the rise and capabilities of the American-style business corporation...read more

A practical guide to developing a family business explains how to make the transition from salaried career to family enterprise and offers tips on the basics of small business, ingredients for success and assessing talents