This illustrative book considers the interface of business structures, contexts, and leadership building blocks to explore the contingent nature of leadership development in transgenerational entrepreneurship. Longitudinal case studies of 27 family firms in nine different countries provide a...

The family business: Special features, stages of development, familiness and enterpriseness, succession, socialisation context FU -- Theory section: systems theory, symbolic interactionism, role theory, excursus: merging the theories -- The family business from a systems theory perspective:...