A close-up examination of several important consultation models and
of the structure, dynamics, and operation of family businesses in
Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ireland, South Korea, Lebanon, Mexico, Saudi
Arabia, Scotland, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, the United Kingdom
and the United States This book is designed to fill an important
gap in the family business literature. Florence W. Kaslow, Ph. D.,
Editor, an internationally respected authority in both family
psychology and family business consultation, presents a disciplined
look at how family businesses are structured, the ebb and flow of
their dynamics, and the ways they operate in thirteen diverse
countries spanning four continents. Top family business consultants
working in those countries share their methods of helping clients
increase earnings and fulfill the missions of their companies. The
contributors examine essential aspects of the world of family
business today, including family offices, globalization, and the
management of a family's wealth. Tables and figures, plus a helpful
glossary, make complex and unfamiliar information easy to
understand. As the world's economies interface and intertwine with
the evolution of international markets and globalization, the
Handbook of Family Business and Family Business Consultation
provides the essential broad knowledge that family business
consultants need in today's business climate. It provides a capsule
history of the premiere organization dedicated to helping family
businesses, the Family Firm Institute (FFI), and then examines
issues essential to anyone involved in, or consulting to, family
businesses, including: the importance of family businesses to the
economic well-being of countries worldwide family officeswhat they
are and why they're important the significance of differentiating
between the family business and the business of being a family for
everyone involved in these overlapping relationships the multiple
and diverse roles that family business consultants play in
different kinds of businesses and in different countries the roles
of non-family employees in family businesses gender issues that
affect family businesses sibling rivalry and other issues of family
conflict the trend toward globalization in various family
businessesand the implications of this trend in terms of family
wealth dispersion, international understanding, competitiveness,
and other emerging phenomena With expert commentary from family
business consultants in such a wide variety of countries, the
Handbook of Family Business and Family Business Consultation is an
essential read for family business consultants, family business
owners, and Family Business Forum staff and member families, as
well as professors and students in MBA programs and family business
courses.
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