1st Edition
Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses Enterprise, Ethnicity and Family Dynamics
Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses
Biography
Dr Daphne Halkias is a Research Affiliate on the Migration Project at The Institute for Social Sciences at Cornell University; a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Young and Family Enterprise at the University of Bergamo; a Research Associate at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego and CEO of Executive Coaching Consultants, an international firm specializing in cross-cultural business, academic and research projects. Dr Chris Adendorff is an entrepreneur who since 1985 has built up a substantial family business. He has a passion for the management of family owned businesses and in particular their planning, governance and turnaround strategies. He lectures on Entrepreneurship, Small Business Management, and Research Methodology at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Business School in Port Elizabeth. To date, Dr Adendorff has written a book on Governance for Immigrant Entrepreneurs and published various articles in national and international journals.
’This detailed study offers long awaited concise solutions on the highly complex governance mechanism for immigrant families worldwide starting their business venture on their own.’ CampdenFB, no. 63, Winter 2015
