Generation to Generation
Subtitle: Life Cycles of the Family Business
Contributors: Hampton, Marion McCollom; Lansberg, Ivan; Kelin E., Gersick; Gersick, Kelin E.
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781422143421
Subjects: Family-owned business enterprises; Management; Succession; Entreprises familiales; Gestion; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Industrial Management; Management Science; Organizational Behavior
Description: Generation to Generation presents one of the first comprehensive overviews of family business as a specific organizational form. Focusing on the inevitable maturing of families and their firms over time, the authors reveal the dynamics and challenges family businesses face as they move through their life cycles. The book asks questions, such as: what is the difference between an entrepreneurial start-up and a family business, and how does one become the other? How does the meaning of the business to the family change as adults and children age? How do families move through generational changes.