Is blood thicker than economic interest in familial enterprises?

Lima, Antónia Pedroso de

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“…The consequent task, often undertaken by women, of organizing communication in extended families is also facilitated by the success of the firm (de Lima, 2000;Johnson, 2000;Ram & Holliday, 1993).…”

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“…Moreover, while family firms respond to highly uncertain environments with a short-term planning horizon (Bruun, 1993, p. 13;Pérez-Lizaur, 1997;Whyte, 1996), in more settled environments they adopt very long time horizons. This facilitates the patient investment of education and training in family members (Benedict, 1968;de Lima, 2000;Goody, 1996, pp. 182-183;193;Nafziger, 1969).…”

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Help One Another, Use One Another: Toward an Anthropology of Family Business

Stewart

2003

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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Anthropological kinship theory is explored for potential contributions to a theory of family business. This paper considers the costs and benefits of a role for kinship in business. Both derive from the discrepancy between the normative orders of kinship and markets; respectively, long-term generalized reciprocity and short-term balanced reciprocity. Because the former reflects the morality of society as a whole, kinship integrates social fields more readily than more specialized orders like markets.

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2003

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“…de Lima (2000) found that in large Portuguese family firms the route to the top required experience in the firm, high levels of training, proven competence, and the backing of one's own powerful branch of the family. It was also advantageous to be an eldest male.…”

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“…To illustrate the principles, we could say that for dynastic firms, whether in Portugal, China or the United States, access to wealth generally follows the N&S rule whereas access to the TMT follows the N rule. The latter rule is more stringent as more conditions than mere filiation must be met (de Lima, 2000;Greenhalgh, 1994;Marcus & Hall, 1992: 27;Whyte, 1996).…”

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Sources of entrepreneurial discretion in kinship systems

Stewart

2010

Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth

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“…The successful work performance of these business family members is what ensures the reproduction of their financial and social status in contemporary Portuguese society (cf. Lima 2000aLima , 2000b and 2001).…”

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Family Relations in Lisbon's Business Elite

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2002

Portuguese Journal of Social Science

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High status groups in Portuguese society constitute a social context in which familial relations are of great importance, both at the level of family members' daily agency and on the far broader scale of their social and professional relations. The author analyses in this article the way familial relations become important processes by which an elite social position may be maintained. The argument is based on fieldwork carried out by the author on seven leading business families in Lisbon who own large firms in operation for at least three generations. This research has showed that the processes by which these families manage to remain majority shareholders and in the top management position in the large companies they have owned for several generations is due, to a great extent, to the fact that these economic investments are considered the symbolic materialisation of a familial project. It is by means of carefully managing familial relations that those involved in these projects are able to ensure and reproduce their belonging to Portugal's financial and social upper set. This argument is illustrated throughout my research into the processes by which the leading families in Portugal's economic setting before the democratic revolution in 1974 have recovered their top financial and social positions in Portugal today.

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Is blood thicker than economic interest in familial enterprises?

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Help One Another, Use One Another: Toward an Anthropology of Family Business

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