1st Edition
Family Business and Management Objectives, Theory, and Practice
Foreword
Chapter 1. Family businesses as a form of entrepreneurship
1.1. Ambiguity in the definition of the concept of “family businesses”
1.2. The specificity of the operation of family businesses
1.3. Classifications of family businesses
Chapter 2. Family entrepreneurship objectives
2.1. Family business objective structure
2.2. The impact of a specific bundle of objectives on the manner of family business management
2.3. Succession as an integral objective of family businesses
Chapter 3. Demographics and the manner family businesses operate in the world
3.1. Significance of family businesses in the economies of selected countries
3.2. Structure and role of family businesses in the Polish economy
3.3 Family business management on the example of Poland
Chapter 4. The objectives set by family businesses: Own research results
4.1. Research methodology and research sample characteristics
4.2. The operation of family businesses – selected aspects
4.3. Objectives as the basis for creating family business classification models
Chapter 5. The role of selected factors in planning and pursuing the objectives of family businesses
5.1. Diversity of family business objectives
5.2. Hierarchy of the objectives of family businesses in the context of succession plans
5.3. The impact of management style on the accomplishment of objectives in family businesses
Conclusion
Biography
Magdalena Biel is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Management at Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland.
Beata Ślusarczyk is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Logistics, Faculty of Management at Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland. She is also an Extraordinary Associate Professor at Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University, South Africa.
