Family business as paradox
- Author
- Additional Author(s)
-
- Ward, John L.
- Stutz, Stacy
- Publisher
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780230243606
- Series
-
- Subject(s)
-
- FAMILY CORPORATIONS--MANAGEMENT
- FAMILY-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES-MANAGEMENT
- FAMILY-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES--MANAGEMENT
- Notes
-
. . Index: p. 205-210
- Abstract
- Rather than having to choose between the family and the business, the authors argue that if family-owned businesses can consciously manage and, synthesize these contradictions, the Family Enterprise will have a long-term strategic and competitive advantage and the family will remain committed to continuity.
Physical Dimension
- Number of Page(s)
- xiv, 210 p.
- Dimension
- 25 cm.
- Other Desc.
- ill.
Summary / Review / Table of Content
Acknowledging both --
Which to choose : family or business? --
Tradition and change in family firms --
Predictable paradoxes across the generations --
Predictable conflicts in the intersections --
Managing both --
A continuum for addressing paradoxes --
One key tool: the polarity map(tm) --
Experience the power of paradox --
Appendix A: historical perspective on paradox --
Appendix B: paradoxes in business literature --
Appendix C: family first : business first assessment --
Appendix D: more on polarity maps(tm).
Exemplar(s)
| # |
Accession No. |
Call Number |
Location |
Status |
| 1. | 03682/16 | 658.045 Sch F | Library - 7th Floor | Available |
