To be or not to be....a family business

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Birdthistle, Naomi
Hales, Robert
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Birdthistle, Naomi

Hales, Robert

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2022
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What Is a Family Business? The field of family business is a rather young academic field of inquiry and tends to unite a diverse group of people such as family business owners, advisors, consultants, accountants, academics and researchers, family therapists and psychologists. Academics, consultants, professionals and practitioners have struggled to define what a family business is even before the field of study emerged in the 1980s. One indication that a research paradigm's development is still nascent is if it lacks agreement on the basic definitions. In the very first issue of the leading academic journal on family businesses – Family Business Review – Lansberg, Perrow, and Rogolsky (1988) opened their editorial note by asking ‘what is a family business?’. Fast forward nearly half a century later and this question continues to be asked because definitional ambiguities persist to this day. Chua, Chrisman, and Chang (2004) ask in their paper if family businesses are born from the get-go or do they become family businesses at a later stage in their development? Would you consider these as being a family business?

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Attaining the 2030 sustainable development goal of climate action

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Entrepreneurship

Small business organisation and management

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Birdthistle, N; Hales, R, To be or not to be....a family business, Attaining the 2030 sustainable development goal of climate action, 2022, pp. 11-16

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