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 StatesThis 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 offices--what
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 businesses--and the implications of this trend in
terms of family wealth dispersion, international understanding,
competitiveness, and other emerging phenomenaWith 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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