This history of three powerful family firms located in different
European countries takes place over a period of more than two
hundred years. The interplay and the changing social and legal
arrangements of the families shaped the development of a European
capitalism quite different from the Anglo-American variety.
Qualifying claims by Alfred Chandler and David Landes that
family firms tend to be dysfunctional, Harold James shows how and
why these steel and engineering firms were successful over long
periods of time. Indeed, he sees the family enterprise as
particularly conducive to managing risk during periods of upheaval
and uncertainty when both states and markets are disturbed. He also
identifies the key roles played by women executives during such
times.
In "Family Capitalism," James tells how "iron masters" of a
classical industrial cast were succeeded by new generations who
wanted to shift to information-age systems technologies, and how
families and firms wrestled with social and economic changes that
occasionally tore them apart. Finally, the author shows how the
trajectories of the firms were influenced by political, military,
economic, and social events and how these firms illuminate a
European model of "relationship capitalism."
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