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Family Business and Regional Development book cover

1st Edition

Family Business and Regional Development

Edited By Rodrigo Basco, Roger Stough, Lech Suwala Copyright 2021
300 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional economic and social development. Although family business participation in economic activities has been a common phenomenon since pre-industrial societies, and its importance has evolved throughout time and across spatial contexts, the book suggests that... Read more

Introduction

Rodrigo Basco, Roger Stough and Lech Suwala

 

1. Spatial Familiness and Family Spatialities—Searching for Fertile Ground between Family Business Studies and Regional Studies

Rodrigo Basco and Lech Suwala

 

2. A Regional Perspective of Family Firms: Evidence from Europe

Rodrigo Basco and Fernanda Ricotta

 

3. Family-Managed Firms and Productivity: Evidence from Urban Areas

Rodrigo Basco, Stefano Amato, Silvia Gómez-Ansón and Andrea Calabrò

 

4. Family Co-occurrence and Firm Productivity

Evans Korang Adjei and Rikard Eriksson

 

5. Developing Digital Innovation in Family Firms: Evidence from Italian Industrial Districts

Stefano Amato, Alessia Patuelli and Nicola Lattanzi

 

6. Family Firms and their Regional Ties: A Bond Made for Future?

Regina Lenz

 

7. Urbanization Economies, Proximity Dimensions and Productivity: A Family Firm Perspective

Stefano Amato, Mikaela Backman and Juhana Peltonen

 

8. Family Firms and Corporate Responsibility in Peripheral Regions

Martin Graffenberger and Franziska Görmar

 

9. Comparing Family and Non-Family Firms’ Strategic Effects on Regional Development Evidence from Kenya

Murithi William and Woldesenbet Beta Kassa

 

10. Family Firms and Regional Entrepreneurship: The European Evidence

Riccardo Cappelli, Marco Cucculelli and Valentina Peruzzi

 

11. Family Firms and Regional Development: Evidence from China

Xinrui Zhang, Junsheng Dou and Hanqing "Chevy" Fang

 

12. Family Firms and Corporate Spatial Responsibilities in Germany – Implication on Urban and Regional Planning and Management

Hans-Hermann Albers and Lech Suwala

 

13. Place-Based Approach and Family Firms: The Tatula Programme in Lithuania

Rodrigo Basco and Inga Bartkevičiūtė

Biography

Rodrigo Basco is Associate Professor and Sheikh Saoud bin Khalid bin Khalid Al-Qassimi Chair in Family Business at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

Roger Stough was the Northern Virginia Endowed Chair and Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, USA.

Lech Suwala is Professor of Urban and Regional Economics at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.

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