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The SAGE Handbook of Family Business captures the conceptual map and state-of-the-art thinking on family business - an area experiencing rapid global growth in research and education since the last three decades.
Edited by the leading figures in family business studies, with contributions and editorial board support from the most prominent scholars in the field, this Handbook reflects on the development and current status of family enterprise research in terms of applied theories, methods, topics investigated, and perspectives on the field's future.
The SAGE Handbook of Family Business is divided into following six sections, allowing for ease of navigation while gaining a multi-dimensional perspective and understanding of the field.
Part I: Theoretical perspectives in family business studies
Part II: Major issues in family business studies
Part III: Entrepreneurial and managerial aspects in family business studies
Part IV: Behavioral and organizational aspects in family business studies
Part V: Methods in use in family business studies
Part VI: The future of the field of family business studies
By including critical reflections and presenting possible alternative perspectives and theories, this Handbook contributes to the framing of future research on family enterprises around the world. It is an invaluable resource for current and future scholars interested in understanding the unique dynamics of family enterprises under the rubric of entrepreneurship, strategic management, organization theory, accounting, marketing or other related areas.
The Anthropology of Family Business: An Imagined Ideal
The Anthropology of Family Business: An Imagined Ideal
Introduction
Anthropology: An Underutilized Resource
Cultural and social anthropology can advance family business studies thanks to well developed literatures in three areas: kinship theory, relevant research, and ethnography (up-close field research using participant observation). Despite these potential benefits, the discipline remains an ‘unutilized resource for advancing the field of family business studies’ (Stewart, 2003, p. 383). Although it shares central interests with family business scholars (Rutherford, 2010; Stewart, 2008) it has not been widely utilized (Wigren, 2007). Searching the abstract of family business journals (largely Family Business Review) for a variant of ‘anthropology’ uncovers just one article. Searching the full text uncovers 21, largely incidental, references. More generally, anthropologists and business scholars ...
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