Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses

Name: Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Conservative estimates put the proportion of worldwide business enterprises owned or managed by families at 65%. The importance of family businesses to the economies of both developed and developing countries cannot be ignored. Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses is an important book. It explores the relationship between ethnic cultural influ > Family businesses constitute some of the most unique, complex, and dynamic systems in modern society. The blending of the performance-based world of business and the emotion-based domain of the family creates a system potentially fraught with confusion and conflict. The significant rise in immigrant family businesses adds a further level of complexity to this mix. Research into immigrant family businesses has been based on traditional, limited views of entrepreneurship largely ignoring the ethnic and family contexts that create the culture from which entrepreneurship emerges, making it impossible to understand the complex and interdep.