Family Business and Regional Development

• Main Authors: Basco, Rodrigo, Stough, Roger, Suwala, Lech
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2021; Taylor and Francis; No Funder Information Available; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography; Business & Economics; Business and Management; Business mathematics and systems; Civil engineering, surveying and building; De Massis; Dense; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Economic Geography; Economics; Economics of industrial organization; Economics of specific sectors; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Economics. Production; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management; Europa; Familienunternehmen; family business; Family Business Field; Family Business Research; Family Business Studies; Family businesses; family enterprise; Family Firms; Family-owned business enterprises; Geography; Human geography; Industrial Economics; Interdisciplinary studies; Knowledge Spillovers; Large Panel Dataset; management geography; Non-family Counterparts; Non-family Firms; Ownership and organization of enterprises; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / urban economics; Regional and area planning; regional competitiveness; Regional development; Regional economics; regional familiness; Regional planning; regional science; regional studies; Regional Studies Scholars; Regionalentwicklung; Regionalwissenschaft; Small Business; Small businesses and self-employment; Social development; Socioeconomic Development; Spanish Manufacturing Firms; Spatial and Regional Planning; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; Unternehmenserfolg; VIF Coefficient; Welt; Wirtschaftsgeographie; Spanish Manufacturing Firms; Knowledge Spillovers; Local Development; Socioeconomic Development; Dense; Civil Society; Family Business Studies; Family Business Research; Family Entrepreneur; Non-family Counterparts; VIF Coefficient; Non-family Firms; Entrepreneurial Orientation; De Massis; Family Co-occurrence; Socio-emotional Wealth; Regional Studies Scholars; Large Panel Dataset; Family Firms; Local Embeddedness; Family Business Field; Local Production Systems; Founding Families; Family Business Scholars; Average Firm Size
• ISBN: 9780429608995; 0429608993; 9780367178611; 9780367559052; 0367178613; 0367559056; 0429058098; 0429597959; 9780429603471; 0429603479; 9780429058097; 9780429597954
• DOI: 10.4324/9780429058097

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, and its importance has evolved throughout time and across spatial contexts, the book suggests that these factors have often been neglected in family business and regional studies. Taking this research gap into account, the book aims to deepen our understanding of the role family firms play in the regional economy. In particular, it explores two seldom studied questions. Firstly, what role do family firms play in regional development? Secondly, how do different spatial regional contexts shape family firm operations and performance? Family Business and Regional Development presents a model of "spatial familiness" and uses themes such as productivity, networks and competitiveness to shed new light on family businesses. Moreover, it approaches the juxtaposition between family business and regional studies to encourage the cross-fertilisation of ideas, theories, and research methods between the two fields. Bringing together leading experts in entrepreneurship, regional economics, and economic geography, this book will be a valuable reading for advanced students, researchers and policymakers interested in family firms, regional studies and economic geography.