Handbook of research on family business

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Edward Elgar Publishing
Group Author: Poutziouris Panikkos Zata; Goel Sanjay; Smyrnios Kosmas X
Published: Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd.,
Publisher Address: Cheltenham
Publication Dates: 2013.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Elgar original reference
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Carrier Form: xviii, 779 p.: ill. ; cm.
ISBN: 9781848443228 (hardback)
1848443226 (hardback)
9781781009383 (e-book)
1781009384 (e-book)
Index Number: F276
CLC: F276.5
Call Number: F276.5/H236/2nd.ed.
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. I. Recent developments in family business research -- pt. II. Corporate governance -- pt. III. Family governance -- pt. IV. Social capital -- pt. V. Women in family business -- pt. VI. Leadership and human resource management in family firms -- pt. VII. Knowledge management -- pt. VIII. Family business sustainability -- pt. IX. Family enterprises from a macroeconomic perspective -- pt. X. Broad-based issues in family firms.
This is a very business-like book in its approach. It has an impressive global reach in its authorship, focal areas and use of evidence; it hits all the major practical challenges of family firms in a spirit that is fresh and current; and it deals with the cutting-edge themes and issues that are uppermost in the minds of owners, executives, advisors and researchers in the field. Nigel Nicholson, London Business School, UK, author, Managing the Human Animal, Family Wars and The I of Leadership During the previous decade, the multi-disciplinary field of family business has advanced significant