Overview
- Curates a unique collection of family business case studies from the United Arab Emirates
- Offers unconventional wisdom on the impact of family business issues on their performance
- Provides learning objectives with discussion topics and further reading material
Part of the book series: Springer Business Cases (SPBC)
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This book provides insights into family businesses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) using a unique collection of case studies that help gain a comprehensive understanding of UAE family firms' profiles and the ways they respond to everyday challenges and future disruptions. Cases treat different issues from the perspective of family businesses, such as succession, innovation, decision-making, strategic orientation, corporate governance, spatial distribution, SDG alignment, etc. Each case contains learning objectives, discussion questions, and suggested readings in order to help readers understand the topic discussed in the respective cases. This book also showcases the five business ecosystem stakeholders that have supported family businesses in the UAE, such as the UAE Government, free zone authorities, university and research institutions, support agencies, and venture capital companies.
Professionals as well as MBA students and researchers involved in the study offamily businesses will particularly benefit from this book.
Professionals as well as MBA students and researchers involved in the study offamily businesses will particularly benefit from this book.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Khaula Alkaabi is a Professor of Transportation Geography at the Department of Geography and Urban Sustainability, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), United Arab Emirates. She held the position of Chair of the Geography Department from 2013 to 2017 and served as the Chief Innovation Officer for UAEU from 2015 to 2022. Her research interests include air transportation, land use planning, spatial analysis, GIS applications, drone applications, tourism, urban development, economic geography, entrepreneurship, innovation, etc. She has published in Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Frontiers in Built Environment, Arab World Geographer, Journal of Enterprising Communities, Transportation Research Part F, Journal of Transport Geography, among others. Dr. Alkaabi has received several research grants, academic honors, and rewards.
Veland Ramadani is a Full Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business at the Faculty of Business and Economics, South-East European University, North Macedonia. His research interests include entrepreneurship, small business management and family businesses. He authored or co-authored around 200 research articles and book chapters, twelve textbooks and twenty-five edited books. He has published in Journal of Business Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Review of Managerial Science, Management Decision, Technology in Society, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, among others. He has received the Award for Excellence 2016 - Outstanding Paper by Emerald Group Publishing. In 2017, he was appointed as a member of the Supervisory Board of Development Bank of North Macedonia, where for ten months served as an acting Chief Operating Officer (COO) as well. He was ranked, three times in a row, among the Top 2% of the most influential researchers in the World, based on a study conducted by Elsevier BV & Stanford University, USA.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Family Business Cases
Book Subtitle: Insights and Perspectives from the United Arab Emirates
Editors: Khaula Alkaabi, Veland Ramadani
Series Title: Springer Business Cases
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39252-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39251-1Published: 06 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-39252-8Published: 05 December 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-5431
Series E-ISSN: 2662-544X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 222
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 86 illustrations in colour
Topics: Family Business, Business Strategy/Leadership, Organization