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- Provides an anthropological study of family businesses and business families
- Systematically compares the connections between family, kinship and economic activity in different cultures
- Combines anthropological and management theoretical approaches to the study of family business
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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 are too often analyzed without considering cultural and kinship differences adequately. Similarly, although the topics of kinship and the economy are central to anthropological analysis, research on family firms and business families has been a marginal topic only that lacks in-depth discussions within anthropology. This volume breaks the mold by offering new empirical and theoretical insights into discussion about business families and family firms from a comparative cross-cultural perspective. It first addresses how the business family can be defined in different cultures and how kinship becomes understandable as a process and through ‘doing family’. In this, the book provides a systematic comparison of the connections between family, kinship and economic activity in different cultures, whereas many of the previous studies have concentrated on only one or a few regions or cultures. It also shows the complexities and challenges when grounding the analysis of economic activity and entrepreneurship in cultural context.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Family Business after the End of Socialism
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The Contet of Family Business
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Family Business and Historical Change
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Concluding Remarks
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Tobias Koellner is Senior Research Fellow at the Witten Institute for Family Business at the Witten/Herdecke University, Germany.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Family Firms and Business Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Book Subtitle: Bringing Anthropology Back In
Editors: Tobias Koellner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20525-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20524-8Published: 14 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20527-9Published: 15 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-20525-5Published: 13 February 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 318
Topics: Social Anthropology, Anthropology, Family Business