Family Firms and Business Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Chapter 1 An Introduction to Family Firms and Business Families from the Anthropological Perspective: Concepts, Reflections and Ethnographic Observations

Chapter 2 How ‘Enduring Family Bonds’ Are Made: Insights from Fulɓe Kinship Enterprises in Northern Benin

Chapter 3 Producing and Reproducing the Business Family Across Generations: The Importance of Narratives in German Business Families

Chapter 4 Power, Family and Business: Practices of Oligarchic Economy in Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Armenia (Before 2018)

Chapter 5 Business as a Gift: Family Entrepreneurship and the Ambiguities of Sharing

Chapter 6 Rethinking Confucianism: Family Business and the Ritual Construction of the ‘Family’ in Japan and China

Chapter 7 Kinship, Godparenthood and Urban Estates in the Bolivian Andes: The Cultural Production of Business Families

Chapter 8 Anthropology of Family and Family Businesses Is Emic All the Way

Chapter 9 The Legacy of the Past in Business Families of Northern Italy

Chapter 11 The Other Side of Succession Issues: How the Decline of Some Family Businesses Allows for the Consolidation of Others

Chapter 12 Conclusion

Chapter 13 Afterword