1st Edition
Global Family Capitalism A Business History Perspective
List of Contributors
Foreword by Mary B. Rose
Introduction: Family Business History: A Bibliometric Approach (1949–2023)
Teresa Mateo López-Mora, José M. Ortiz-Villajos, and Paloma Fernández Pérez
PART ONE. Family Business History in Europe and the United States
Chapter 1. Family Capitalism in Comparative Perspective: Germany and the USA
Hartmut Berghoff and Ingo Köhler
Chapter 2. French Family Firms since the End of World War II: From Difficult Survival to New Specialties and a Potential of Dynamics
Patrick Fridenson
Chapter 3. Exploring the Importance of Place in Family Businesses: Evidence from the UK
Niall G. MacKenzie and Nicholas D. Wong
Chapter 4. Family Firms in the Netherlands: Outdated and Secretive, or Resilient and Sustainable?
Ewout J. Hasken and Keetie Sluyterman
Chapter 5. Large Family Businesses: The Nordic Case
Hans Sjögren
Chapter 6. Families, Firms and Growth: Paradoxes of Italian Capitalism
Andrea Colli
Chapter 7. Family Businesses in Modern Spain, 1939–2023
Paloma Fernández Pérez and Juan Francisco Corona Ramón
Chapter 8. Greek Family Business of the Tertiary Sector, 19th–20th Centuries: Shipping and Tourism
Gelina Harlaftis and Aimilia Vlami
PART TWO. Family Business History in Asia
Chapter 9. Historical Dynamics of the Family System and Family Business in Japan
Hideaki Sato and Takafumi Kurosawa
Chapter 10. Family Capitalism in South Korea: Realities and Limitations
Dominique Barjot
Chapter 11. The Changing Nature of Chinese Family Firms and the Enduring Character of Chinese Business Families
Carles Brasó Broggi and Yuan Jia-Zheng
Chapter 12. Family Businesses in India: History and the Future
Tirthankar Roy
PART THREE. Family Business History in Latin America
Chapter 13. Entrepreneurship and Survival: Narratives and Voices of Argentinean Large Family Businesses
Andrea Lluch
Chapter 14. Family Business Groups in Central America: From Local Markets to the Internationalization, 1980–2020
Javier Vidal Olivares, Lissette Canales, and Candelaria Saiz
Chapter 15. Large Family Business in Mexico: Legacy and Longevity
Araceli Almaraz Alvarado
Chapter 16. Colombian Family Capitalism in the Twentieth Century: Business Heterogeneity, Strategic Behavior, and Growth
Beatriz Rodríguez-Satizábal and Julio César Zuluaga
Chapter 17. From a Large Family Business to a Heterogeneous Business Structure: Business Family and the State in Peru, 1890–2020
Martín Monsalve Zanatti
PART FOUR. Family Business History in Africa
Chapter 18. For Family and Country: Enduring Entrepreneurial Family Firms in South Africa in the Twentieth Century
Grietjie Verhoef
Chapter 19. A Historical Perspective of North African, Levantine, and Gulf Family Businesses in the 20th Century
Israa Mahgoub, Martin Klimke, Farida El Agamy and Shereen El Agamy
Biography
Paloma Fernández Pérez is Professor of Economic and Business History at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
