This paper is written to explore the converging economics, politics and networks of family business in the knowledge economy. Knowledge provides the family the trigger to perform well in the face of competition from the public sector and multinationals

The Internet has been acknowledged to be an extraordinary tool to handle and distribute information. Already, corporations from General Electric to Manpower Inc. are looking at ways to channel the internet's vast resources to cut costs, build profit, spot market trends early, swap manufacturing...

I began with an analysis of how the psychology of cognition and knowledge have changed in between the the networked form of organization. Specifically, there is a shift in focus from hardware psychology of information to software psychology of knowledge and schema biases. Powerful knowledge...