Family-owned and managed firms are often beset by a variety of crises that can impact the firm's very survival. These may include changes in technology, deaths of critical family members, competition within an industrial sector, shifts in market dynamics and product mixes, economic turmoil,...

Many of the challenges faced by family-owned businesses develop after the firm has reached a stage of maturity, when the first generation is faced with issues concerning the role of their children in the business and the long-term future of the enterprise. This collection of case studies from...

Introduction -- Reading a Family Business Case -- Case One: Bacardi Limited - A growing family’s firm in a consolidating industry -- Case Two: Thai-Rolls Restaurants - Growth and Delegating Control to Non-Family Management -- Case Three: Seattle Homes and the Waterman Family - Transitions in...

1 Introduction -- 2 How Did Growth Become So Interesting? -- 3 Entrepreneurship, Growth, and High-Growth in Research and Policy -- 4 Measuring growth -- 5 Growth and profit -- 6 Conflicting agendas: Stakeholders, Growth and Profit -- 7 Do Experts Know What Growth Is? Two studies on perception --...

Many of the challenges faced by family-owned businesses develop after the firm has reached a stage of maturity, when the first generation is faced with issues concerning the role of their children in the business and the long-term future of the enterprise. This collection of case studies from...