The Family council handbook : how to create, run, and maintain a successful family business council
- Author
- Additional Author(s)
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- Publisher
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780230112193
- Series
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- Subject(s)
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- CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
- FAMILY-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES-MANAGEMENT
- FAMILY-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES
- Notes
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. . Includes index (p. 357-370)
- Abstract
- A Family Council oversees a family on everything from educating the family for their future responsibilities as owners, to settling disputes within the family. With this in mind, this practical manual will guide business families on how to manage how their family governs itself and relates to their business.
Physical Dimension
- Number of Page(s)
- xiii, 370 p.
- Dimension
- 25 cm.
- Other Desc.
- ill.
Summary / Review / Table of Content
Family organization and governance for sustaining the family business: a field manual --
Reasons for starting or resisting a family council --
Stages of family businesses and types of family councils --
How to start and organize a family council --
Running the family council --
Committees of the family council --
The family assembly and the family association --
Special family governance structures: owners councils and executive committees --
Family leadership --
Using a professional facilitator --
Transitions in the family council --
Connecting the family council with the board and the business --
Family communications --
The journey forward --
Appendixes: 1. Definitions --
2. Family council charter example --
3. Family council assessment form --
4. Decision making on family business matters --
5. Examples of shared expectations --
6. Family advisor candidate rating form.
Exemplar(s)
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| 1. | 03664/16 | 658.045 Eck F | Library - 6th Floor | Available |
