Governance Challenges in Family Businesses and Business Families
- 1 November 2015
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
- Vol. 39 (6), 1265-1280
- https://doi.org/10.1111/etap.12180
Abstract
We use the articles and commentaries in this special issue to reinvigorate the theme of family business governance and extend its scope beyond the single business, single–family approach that has traditionally dominated the family business literature. Through a discussion of the implications of the articles and commentaries included in this special issue we begin to chart a new and expanded research program for governance that addresses the challenges of the large and complex multifamily and/or multibusiness family enterprise. We hope to encourage research in a direction that will add significantly to our understanding of business families’ contributions to the global economy.Keywords
Funding Information
- Centre for Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at the University of Alberta
- Center of Family Enterprise Research at Mississippi State University, and an anonymous donor
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