This book takes a serious look at how the family-related factors of
socio-emotional wealth (SEW) motivations and work-family interface
(WFI) strategies and experiences influence owner-managed businesses
and business owner-managers in the US, Germany/Switzerland, China,
Brazil and India. It will be of especial interest to
entrepreneurship and family business scholars looking for
comparative empirical research on the family and contextual
embeddedness of entrepreneurial activity.' - Pramodita Sharma,
Family Business Review'This is a wonderful book and very timely.
For a while now, scholars have discussed the manifold influences of
family on business and of business on family. This book is a
must-read for all of us interested in family entrepreneurship, not
least because of its theoretical ideas, but also because of the
unique empirical data on 'firms within families', presented for a
wide variety of countries, amongst them, Brazil, China and India.
The editors have done a superb job in bringing together a group of
leading scholars on family business, thus widening our perspectives
on what constitutes a family business.' - Friederike Welter,
Institut fur Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn and University of
Siegen, Germany'This excellent book addresses a new area of
research within entrepreneurship and family business. Understanding
the impact of both family and country contexts, or what the editors
- all leading authorities in the entrepreneurship and family
business fields - call 'double embeddedness' on enterprising
activities, is a very important but previously under-researched
topic. The book s chapters offer invaluable insights into the
similarities and differences between developed and developing
countries. This makes the book a unique and much needed source of
inspiration for all researchers who are interested in exploring and
comparing entrepreneurship and family business topics in diverse
country settings.' - Mattias Nordqvist, Joenkoeping International
Business School, Joenkoeping University, Sweden Just as much
entrepreneurial activity is embedded within families, many families
are embedded in business enterprising. And both are embedded in
broader economic, institutional and cultural environments that
shape their experience and development. Firms within Families:
Enterprising in Diverse Country Contexts investigates this 'double
embeddedness' of business ownership and management through two
illuminating sets of empirical studies. Part I focuses upon the
family-oriented goal of socio-emotional wealth and its association
with a firm's strategic orientations, strategies and performance.
Part II examines strategies and experiences at the work-family
interface and their implications for an owner-manager's
psychological well-being. Both parts feature diverse studies from
the United States, Switzerland/Germany, China, Brazil and India.
The findings from this unique collaboration reveal intriguing
similarities and differences in the influence of family-related
factors upon owner-managers and their firms within distinct
socio-economic regions of the world. It will be of especial
interest to scholars of entrepreneurship, family enterprise and
international business. Contributors: T. Andreassi, K.A. Eddleston,
M. Ganter, J. Huang, J.E. Jennings, P. Devereaux Jennings, Y. Joo,
K. Kumar, R. Sarathy, P. Sieger, L. Tian, M.J. Tonelli, T.
Zellweger, Y. Zheng
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