Best for the Family’
Researching Families and Business
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12669293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robin Mackie (0000-0002-7534-409X, The Open Group, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-44 |
| Publication date | 2001-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Family & Community History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1463-1180 • E-ISSN: 1751-3812 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/fch.2001.4.1.004 |
| PMID | 19610231 |
| OpenAlex | W2103968100 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 45 |
For most of us, the term ‘family firm’ summons images of an old-established and perhaps rather conservative business that has been passed down through the generations. This article starts by using a study of one firm to argue that the stereotype conceals significant questions about firms, families and the relations between them. It goes on to outline some recent historical work on family firms by looking, in turn, at research on the incidence and character of family business, on the strategies and performance of companies, and on the family dimension in enterprise. It stresses the importance of the small-scale and the local in this research and notes that historians are now using a range of sources familiar to local and community historians to develop this field
Business · Character (mathematics · Dimension (graph theory · Family business · Field (mathematics · Order (exchange · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Stereotype (UML · Summons · Work (physics · Engineering · Family Business Performance and Succession · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Finance · Marketing
Family fortunes
Scale and Scope
Industry in Kirkcaldy
Industry in Kirkcaldy
Relative Value
A Respectable Family Enterprise
Politics, Property and Family Resources
Integration, Innovation, and the Progress of a Family Cotton Enterprise
Proprietary Capitalism
Company Financial Statements as Source Material for Business Historians
Should Historians Trust Late Nineteenth-Century Company Financial Statements
Family Enterprise in an Industrial City
Family and Business in a Small City
Clogs to Clogs in Three Generations? Explaining Entrepreneurial Performance in Britain Since 1850
The Early Scottish Limited Companies, 1856-1895
The Rise and Decline of Small Firms
Unquoted Companies
Financing the Micro-Scale Enterprise
Personal Capitalism and British Industrial Decline
T. S. Ashton Prize Essay for 1976 Labour, Power, and the Size of Firms in Lancashire Cotton in the Second Quarter of the Nineteenth Century
Anatomy of the British Business Elite, 1860–1980
Marshall and the Birth and Death of Firms
The Small Family Firm in Victorian Britain
Family Firms and Business Networks
Build a Firm, Start Another
Family Firms and Managerial Capitalism
The Family Firm in Industrial Capitalism
Inheritance and Succession in the City of London in the Nineteenth Century
The Birth and Death of Firms in England and Wales During the Inter-War Years
An Introduction to Archival Research in Business History
The Entrepreneurial Family Economy
Inheritance and the Life-Cycle of Family Firms in the Early Industrial Revolution
Merchant Banking Dynasties in the English Class Structure
Learning Manufacture
The Size of Firms in the Cotton Industry
Essays in British Business History
British Culture and Economic Decline
Salvesen of Leith
Seedcorn or Chaff? New Firm Formation and the Performance of the Interwar Economy
The Family Enterprise and Business Strategies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2001 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |