Overview

Editors:

Justin B Craig and Ken Moores
(Australian Centre for Family Business Bond University)

Carole Howorth
(Centre for Family Business Management School Lancaster) and

Panikkos Poutziouris
(Cyprus International Institute of Management and
Manchester Business School, AFEMRG, President IFERA)

Family Business Research is at the tipping point threshold with rapidly increasing acceptance of family business research in top-tier journals. Family business as a vehicle for commerce predates most forms of market structures; however, with a wide range of configurations, its paradigm development has been slow to date.

Chua Chrisman and Sharma (1999) define family business: 'governed and/or managed with the intention to shape and pursue the vision of the business held by a dominate coalition controlled by members of the same family or a small number of families in a manner that is potentially sustainable across generations of the family or families'.

Offering a rich differentiated context that adds relevance to many others disciplines, this peer reviewed collection contributes to the development of family business scholarship as a distinct context with legitimacy in its own right with impacts on commerce, employment, entrepreneurship, community, generational and family studies alike.

Table of Contents

Family business research at a tipping point threshold - Justin B Craig,  Ken Moores, Carole Howorth and Panikkos Poutziouris

Do families shape corporate governance structures? - María Sacristán Navarro and Silvia Gómez Ansón

Executive Coaching in a Family Business Environment - Leon Levin, Gil Bozer and Charmine Hartel

Qualitative research on family businesses: the relevance and usefulness of the interpretive approach - Mattias Nordqvist, Annika Hall and Leif Melin

Salient stakeholder voices: Family business and green innovation adoption - Yi-Chun Huang, Hung-Bin Ding and Ming-Rea Kao

Women's leadership journeys in family firms: Preliminary results from recent international case research - Ken Moores and Mary Barrett

Attitudes and expectations of shareholders: The case of the multi-generation family business - Jill Thomas