Family firms and business families in cross-cultural perspective

• Titel: Family firms and business families in cross-cultural perspective
• Titelzusatz: bringing anthropology back in
• Mitwirkende: Köllner, Tobias [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: Tobias Koellner, editor
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 318 Seiten)
• Fussnoten: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
• ISBN: 978-3-031-20525-5
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Dokumenttyp: Konferenzschrift: (2019)
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Family firms and business families in cross-cultural perspective. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. - xviii, 318 Seiten
• Sach-SW: Electronic books
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Abstract

This volume is based in part on a conference held in November 2019 at the Witten/Herdecke University. The conference was called "WIFU meets Anthropology" and was part of a broader initiative at the Witten Institute for Family Business (WIFU).

Abstract

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: An Introduction to Family Firms and Business Families from the Anthropological Perspective: Concepts, Reflections and Ethnographic Observations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 An Anthropological Approach to Family Firms and Business Families -- 2.1 Doing Kinship, Relatedness, Kinning and Doing Family -- 2.2 The Business Family and the Kinship Enterprise -- 2.3 Business Families in Cultural Contexts -- 3 Overview of the Chapters -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Part II: A Processual Understanding of Kinship -- Chapter 2: How 'Enduring Family Bonds' Are Made: Insights from Fulɓe Kinship Enterprises in Northern Benin -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Fulɓe Family Economies as 'Kinship Enterprises' -- 1.2 Perspectives on 'Family' and 'Kinship' -- 2 Economic Projects: Pastoral Systems of Production -- 3 Social Projects in Fulɓe Kinship Enterprises -- 4 How 'Enduring Family Bonds' Are Made -- 4.1 Kinning Rituals at Birth -- 4.2 Marrying Sons and Daughters off: Rationalities and Desires -- 4.3 Caring for Cattle and People -- 4.4 Transferring Rights over Cattle and Milk -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Producing and Reproducing the Business Family Across Generations: The Importance of Narratives in German Business Families -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Research and Its Methodology -- 3 Narratives and Family Business -- 3.1 The Narrative Approach -- 3.2 The Role of Narratives in Family Business -- 4 Empirical Examples of Narratives in Family Business -- 4.1 Case 1: Survival and Succession: Flexibility, Cooperation, Continuity and Change -- 4.2 Case 2: The Cleverness of the Family and its Members -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Family Business after the End of Socialism.