Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses: Enterprise, Ethnicity and Family Dynamics

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Daphne Halkias Christian Adendorff

Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses

Enterprise, Ethnicity and Family Dynamics

Daphne Halkias, Christian Adendorff

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Routledge
30 June 2020

Ethnic studies; Economics; International business; Management of specific areas; Business mathematics & systems

Family businesses constitute some of the most unique, complex, and dynamic systems in modern society. The blending of the performance-based world of business and the emotion-based domain of the family creates a system potentially fraught with confusion and conflict. The significant rise in immigrant family businesses adds a further level of complexity to this mix. Research into immigrant family businesses has been based on traditional, limited views of entrepreneurship largely ignoring the ethnic and family contexts that create the culture from which entrepreneurship emerges, making it impossible to understand the complex and interdependent relationships between an owning family, its firm, its governance and the community context in which the firm operates. These firms possess features that make their governance a challenging task. They depict a complex stakeholder structure, whereby the ownership stakes are passed from one generation to the next. The owning family's members usually play multiple roles, thereby blurring governance relationships. Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses explores the relationship between ethnic cultural influence in family businesses and its impact on corporate governance, addressing the intertwined influences of contractual, relational and cultural governance mechanisms and sets out a comprehensive theoretical model which clarifies the complexities involved in business planning, family harmony, and ethnic cultural variables. The authors specifically identify the implications for research, education, and practice. Application of their model will be of value to policy makers, consultants, business researchers and educators.

By: Daphne Halkias, Christian Adendorff
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367605407
ISBN 10: 0367605406
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 30 June 2020
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses

Dr Daphne Halkias is a Research Affiliate on the Migration Project at The Institute for Social Sciences at Cornell University; a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Young and Family Enterprise at the University of Bergamo; a Research Associate at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego and CEO of Executive Coaching Consultants, an international firm specializing in cross-cultural business, academic and research projects. Dr Chris Adendorff is an entrepreneur who since 1985 has built up a substantial family business. He has a passion for the management of family owned businesses and in particular their planning, governance and turnaround strategies. He lectures on Entrepreneurship, Small Business Management, and Research Methodology at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Business School in Port Elizabeth. To date, Dr Adendorff has written a book on Governance for Immigrant Entrepreneurs and published various articles in national and international journals.

Reviews for Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses: Enterprise, Ethnicity and Family Dynamics

'This detailed study offers long awaited concise solutions on the highly complex governance mechanism for immigrant families worldwide starting their business venture on their own.' CampdenFB, no. 63, Winter 2015