Sociology of the Business Family

Chapter 1 Foundations, Recent Developments and Future Perspectives of a Sociology of the Business Family: An Introduction

Chapter 2 The Hunger for Human Capital: Industrial Society and Family Development

Chapter 3 Western (Business) Family Models in Historical Change: A Process–Sociological Sketch

Chapter 4 Families and Organizations: Similarities, Differences and Linkages

Chapter 5 Empirical Findings on Business Families in Germany

Chapter 6 From the Family Business to the Business Family: On the Extension of a Social Science and Systems Theory Perspective

Chapter 7 Social Plurality and Family Identity: On the Evolution of the Business Family Using the Example of Succession in Family Businesses

Chapter 8 The Business Family as a Family of Its Own Kind in the Process of Social Change: Challenges and Opportunities Using the Example of Female Succession

Chapter 9 Socialization and Parenting Processes in Business Families

Chapter 10 The Dynastic Extended Family: A Sketch of a Specific Type of Business Family

Chapter 11 The “Tripled” Family: Dynastic Business Families as Families, Organizations, and Networks

Chapter 12 Company, Family, Business Family: Systems-Theoretical Perspectives on the Extension of Three-Circle Thinking

Chapter 13 The Business Family of Society: Function, Code and Medium of an Unusual Social System

Chapter 14 The Doing Family Concept: A New Perspective on Understanding the Production and Cohesion of Business Families