This chapter searches for common fertile ground between the disciplines of family business studies and regional studies. Most existing studies linking both disciplines are fragmented and dispersed, thereby obstructing a systematic assessment of the cross fertilisation of knowledge. Based on...

This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional economic and social development. Although family business participation in economic activities has been a common phenomenon since pre-industrial societies,...

There is both a practical and a scholarly need for the thorough examination of the nexus between family firms and economic spaces (e.g. locations, places, landscapes). The authors address this nexus through two approaches. First, they explore economic spaces’ effect on family firms by...

Over the last decade or so, the debate on the planning and development of the Paris (Île-de-France) region has revolved around two little words: "Grand Paris", or Greater Paris. Despite existing political and scientific controversies surrounding the future of the capital region, three major...

Infolge der Regionalisierung von Wirtschafts- und Strukturpolitik entstehen entweder vollkommen neue Institutionen (horizontale Regionalisierung) oder Institutionen mit neuen Kompetenzen (vertikale Regionalisierung). Der Erfolg einer Regionalisierungspolitik läßt sich am Grad der...

This report provides an overview of spatial and land-use planning systems in OECD countries1 focusing on: (i) the governance systems across countries, (ii) the institutional and legal frameworks for spatial planning, and (iii) the various policy instruments used at different levels of...

This essay is concerned only with the emigration of Arab elites (brain drain), which is vastly different from the mass economic migration of workers to Europe, the U.S. and rich countries. The main assumption is that the scary state of Arab societies at political, social and cultural levels, is...

Democracy as manifested in the observance of people's political rights to elect and be elected, hence participation has gained ground over the past decade, and is found to impact positively and significantly, economic growth and income per capita, but negatively and insignificantly with poverty...

Democracy as manifested in the observance of people's political rights to elect and be elected, hence participation has gained ground over the past decade, and is found to impact positively and significantly, economic growth and income per capita, but negatively and insignificantly with poverty...