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Family Firms and Business Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Bringing Anthropology Back In

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Family Firms and Business Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Bringing Anthropology Back In Tobias Koellner Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Tobias Koellner

ISBN(s): 9783031205248, 3031205243

File Details: PDF, 5.87 MB

Year: 2023

Language: English

SKU: EB-49137574 Category: Science Tags: Anthropology Back In, Business Families, Family Firms, Tobias Koellner

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Family Firms and Business Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Bringing Anthropology Back In – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783031205248,3031205243,9783031205255, 3031205251

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ISBN 10:3031205251
ISBN 13:9783031205255
Author: Tobias Koellner

This edited volume provides an anthropological study of family businesses and business families. In previous research on family firms and business families, the comparative cross-cultural approach of anthropology has so far received little attention. As a result, family firms and business families are too often analyzed without considering cultural and kinship differences adequately. Similarly, although the topics of kinship and the economy are central to anthropological analysis, research on family firms and business families has been a marginal topic only that lacks in-depth discussions within anthropology. This volume breaks the mold by offering new empirical and theoretical insights into discussion about business families and family firms from a comparative cross-cultural perspective. It first addresses how the business family can be defined in different cultures and how kinship becomes understandable as a process and through ‘doing family’. In this, the book provides a systematic comparison of the connections between family, kinship and economic activity in different cultures, whereas many of the previous studies have concentrated on only one or a few regions or cultures. It also shows the complexities and challenges when grounding the analysis of economic activity and entrepreneurship in cultural context.

Table contents:

Part I. Introduction

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

Part II. A Processual Understanding of Kinship

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

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

Part III. Family Business after the End of Socialism

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

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

Part IV. The Contet of Family Business

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

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