Deals with the issue of entrepreneurship and family business. This title considers the issues, problems, contexts, or processes that make a family firm more entrepreneurial. It covers topics such as the emergence and growth of family businesses, and the use of entrepreneurial policies, practices...

Kudumbashree, meaning the family's prosperity, is a flagship program of the Government of Kerala, centered on woman empowerment. Through the operation of micro enterprises, Kudumbashree cherishes the expectation that asset management ability of the poor women will increase along with their...

Scholars engage in extensive debate about the role of families and corporations in economic growth. Some propose that personal ties provide a mechanism for overcoming such transactions costs as asymmetrical information, while others regard familial connections as conduits for inefficiency, with...

This book presents the reader a comprehensive understanding of the development of family business in transitional economies. Throughout eastern Europe, post-Communist countries transitioning to market-based economies are obtaining a variety of results due to diverse policy approaches. Expert...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Family Dynamics under Patriarchy -- I. Planning A Business Dynasty, 1907-1932 -- 1. Parents Who Dreamed of a Business Dynasty -- 2. Sons Who Tried for Admission to Cambridge -- 3. Sons Who Did Not Want to Become British Citizens -- II. Behaving...