Archive for November 5th, 2007

Family Firms

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Although the family firm itself cannot fairly be described as a management idea, it does embody a number of distinctive features around which has been spun a specific theory about corporate behaviour. Family firms have become big business. They have their own magazine, Family Business, their own specialist community of consultants and their own academic institutions – for example, the Loyola University Chicago Family Business Centre.

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