Family Firms and Business Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective Bringing Anthropology Back In

This edited volume provides an anthropological study of family businesses and business families. In previous research on family firms and business families, the comparative cross-cultural approach of anthropology has so far received little attention. As a result, family firms and business families a...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Koellner, Tobias (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Introduction and Theory
  • 1. Introduction: Family Firms and Business Families in Anthropological Perspective
  • Part II: The Business Family
  • 2. The Business Family across Generations: Narratives as Means for Reproduction in the German Context
  • 3. How Enduring Family Bonds Are Made: Insights from Fulbe Pastoralist Kinship Enterprises
  • 4. Power, Family and Business: Practices of Clan Economy in Armenia Before the Velvet Revolution in 2018
  • 5. “We Are Like a Family”: Relatedness, Emotions and the Inalienability of Family-Run Firms in Italy
  • Part III: The Kinship Enterprise
  • 8. Anthropology of Family and Family Business are Emic all the Way
  • 9. Religion, Ritual and Family Business in East Asia
  • 10. Family-Run Firms in Contemporary Mauritius
  • Part IV: Résumé and Conclusion
  • 11. Conclusion
  • 12. Afterword