Producing Culture and Capital is a major theoretical contribution to the anthropological literature on capitalism, as well as a rich case study of kinship and gender relations in northern Italy. ...Drawing on ethnographic and archival research on thirty-eight firms in northern Italy's silk industry, Sylvia Yanagisako illuminates the cultural processes through which sentiments, desires, and commitments motivate and shape capitalist family firms. She shows how flexible specialization is produced through the cultural dynamics of capital accumulation, management succession, firm expansion and diversification, and the reproduction and division of firms. In doing so, Yanagisako addresses two gaps in Marx's and Weber's theories of capitalism: the absence of an adequate cultural theory of capitalist motivation and the absence of attention to kinship and gender. By demonstrating that kinship and gender are crucial in structuring capitalist action, this study reveals these two gaps to be different facets of the same omission. A process-oriented approach to class formation and class subjectivity enables the author to incorporate the material and ideological struggles within families into an analysis of class-making and self-making. Yanagisako concludes that both "provincial" and "global" capitalist orientations and strategies operate in an industry that has always been integrated into regional and international relations of production and distribution. Her approach to culture and capitalism as mutually constituted processes offers an alternative to both universal models of capitalism as a mode of production and essentialist models of distinctive "cultures of capitalism."
Insider case stories from real family businesses owned and managed by Asian families globally cover topics including succession planning, conflict resolution, overcoming COVID 19, values and ...identity, CSR, green innovation, sustainability, internationalization, transformation, family relation, communications, and entrepreneurship.
The Dragon Network Susanto, A. B; Susanto, Patricia
2013, 2013., 2013-03-25T00:00:00, 2013-01-24
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What's driving the burgeoning global Chinese family businesses?Chinese family businesses are the driving force behind Asia's economic prosperity. As the world becomes more global they have had to ...adapt to the new environment. This timely book draws on an extensive regional survey to reveal the key players and the strategies that will drive their success going forward. The book discusses and analyzes the business life and achievements of some prominent overseas Chinese family businesses in Asia and reveals their life philosophies, their business journey, and their family role in business. Includes analysis regarding how the senior Chinese generations prepare their children to run the business in the future Reveals that flexibility, ability to adapt to changing business environments, and resilience contribute to the success of many overseas Chinese family businessesOffers illustrative examples of successful family businesses from Malaysia, Indonesia, The Philippines, and ChinaBased in solid research and filled with illustrative examples, The Dragon Networkoffers an inside look at how family businesses succeed and thrive in Asia.
Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Climate Action examines family businesses in Germany, Australia, the U.S and the U.K, analysing how the SDG13 translates into culture and the ...practice of doing business, providing insights and key takeaways into how family businesses can play a role in combatting climate change.
Recognizing that business model innovation (BMI) is a constant source of value creation in the digital economy, we examine the nexus between absorptive capacity and strategic flexibility, and their ...effects on BMI. We argue that to increase strategic flexibility and innovate their business model, firms need to develop their potential absorptive capacity (acquisition and assimilation of knowledge) as well as their realized absorptive capacity (transformation and exploitation of knowledge). While potential absorptive capacity drives both BMI and strategic flexibility, realized absorptive capacity increases a firm’s strategic flexibility. Our analysis of 282 Italian small- and medium-sized firms also shows a relationship between realized absorptive capacity and BMI, but only under conditions of environmental uncertainty.
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German Mittelstand firms are part of an institutional setting characterized by tightly knit relationships with internal and external stakeholders, which makes it more difficult for these firms to ...engage in business model innovation. The topic of how these firms have remained competitive over time has attracted growing interest from researchers. Therefore, this study investigates how dynamic capabilities can promote business model innovation for a sample of SMEs from the German Mittelstand (n = 285) and tests whether the different characteristics of these firms moderate this relationship. We find that specific dynamic capabilities are needed for the various aspects of business model innovation. Medium-sized firms profit from higher engagement with outside stakeholders, while balancing efficiency and flexibility, and small firms are advised to concentrate on revising their resource configurations. Moreover, we identify whether the innovativeness of Mittelstand firms is rooted in their individual characteristics or is a function of this institutional setting.
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Building Family Business Champions provides a theoretically sound and practical framework for understanding the challenges that family businesses face. Drawing on three decades of consulting with ...more than 250 companies, their own experience running a family-owned firm, and sound research, Eric G. Flamholtz and Yvonne Randle explain that the success of these companies hinges upon the dual management of family functionality and the company's infrastructure. They present a set of managerial tools for planning, structuring the business, measuring performance, and managing culture. After laying this groundwork, they attend to issues that uniquely pertain to these companies, such as succession and the challenges of familial dysfunction. Finally, the book offers a set of short self-assessments that can be used in any family business. Richly illustrated with stories of companies at various stages of growth from around the globe, this book provides a comprehensive guide for building businesses that thrive from generation to generation.
•Entrepreneurial orientation is positively associated with family firm performance.•Concern for socioemotional wealth preservation is positively associated with family firm performance and enhances ...the positive effect of entrepreneurial orientation on family firm performance.
This paper explores whether concern for socioemotional wealth enhances or undermines the positive effect of entrepreneurial orientation on family firm performance. Two analysis techniques were used: second-generation structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). These techniques were applied to data on 106 Spanish family firms. Results of both analyses are similar, lending validity and robustness to the proposed research model. Specifically, the results indicate that 1) entrepreneurial orientation positively influences family firm performance, 2) concern for socioemotional wealth preservation positively influences both entrepreneurial orientation and family firm performance, and 3) concern for socioemotional wealth preservation positively moderates the influence of entrepreneurial orientation on family firm performance.
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