The Family Business University: How to Live, Create and Tell Your Family Business Story

McAdam, Maura; Alrubaishi, Dalal

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-66846-4_18

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“…This is part of the 'generativity' stage of psychosocial development, one which is characterised by a desire to guide and nurture the younger generation both in family and workplace settings. Imprinting then, along with other social practices such as story telling (see Collier, 2006), are important mechanisms through which family business owners can transfer knowledge and values across generations (McAdam and Alrubaishi, 2021), thus reinforcing the family legacy. However, conflict often occurs when the legacy ambitions that parent generations wish to transfer do not align with the achievement needs of the next generation (Barbera, Stamm and DeWitt, 2018;Jaskiewicz, Combs and Rau, 2015).…”

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The impact of adolescent work on parent–child relationships: A multi-generational approach among hospitality family businesses

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Martín

2023

Hospitality &Amp; Society

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Business-owning parents face the decision of whether to involve their own children in the family business. Employing family members for little or no wages is widely documented in the hospitality and tourism industries, though children’s role in such businesses is often missing from the literature. This article seeks to address this gap by exploring parental motives for involving children in the family business and the impact of such decisions on parent–child relationships in later life. The article adopts a multi-generational approach, comparing both parent’s and children’s accounts of adolescent work performed at the family business. The research findings are based on semi-structured interviews with nineteen individuals across five restaurant-owning families. The article concludes that parental motives for adolescent work are a composition of convenience, economic gain and an attempt to educate the next generation. We further argue that adolescent work serves as an ‘imprinting’ mechanism and demonstrate that children perceive their family business involvement to be a purely economic endeavour when their parents neglect to practise imprinting. The research findings indicate that when this happens, offspring recall their adolescent work experience negatively and it is detrimental to parent–child relationships. The originality of the article stems from the research findings which are based on interviews among adults who recalled their past experiences of adolescent work, thus allowing the longer lasting impact of adolescent work on parent–child relationships to be explored, whereas previous work adopting a similar focus has been conducted among adolescents.

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The impact of adolescent work on parent–child relationships: A multi-generational approach among hospitality family businesses

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Martín

2023

Hospitality &Amp; Society

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The role of in-laws in family business continuity: a perspective

Rosso

2024

JFBM

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PurposeThe purpose is to provide a brief summary on the current research development regarding the role of in-laws in family firms’ continuity. Additionally, I provide a perspective on the trends on the research regarding the in-laws involvement and influence in preparing future generations of family firms’ owners/managers. At the end, I conclude on what should be the relevant issues to be explored and researched in the future.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, I review the literature on the role of in-laws on the family business continuity, particularly, I emphasize the involvement of in-laws in family firms. I found that this topic of family business continuity has not widely researched and the role of in-laws on the future of the family firm has been underestimated in the extant literature. I provide a brief summary on the trends related the involvement of in-laws in the family business continuity and, at the end, I give my conclusions on what should be a research agenda regarding this topic.FindingsDespite previous research, the question of the role of in-laws in family firms remains unanswered from the business-owning family perspective, nor from the in-laws’ perspective. The previous research has raised more questions on this topic. Clearly, the research landscape is vast, and scholars’ callings to find better ways to identify family members are totally justifiable.Originality/valueBased on the literature review, it can be argued that one of the topics with high potential for future research and development is related to the role of in-laws in the family business continuity, either because they are passively included as part of the family group, without acknowledgment on their involvement or because governance policies have formally excluded them. In this review, I highlight the influence of the in-laws in the family business continuity; particularly, their role in preparing future generations of family firms owners/managers and imprinting them with the family values, culture and believes.

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The Family Business University: How to Live, Create and Tell Your Family Business Story

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The impact of adolescent work on parent–child relationships: A multi-generational approach among hospitality family businesses

The impact of adolescent work on parent–child relationships: A multi-generational approach among hospitality family businesses

The role of in-laws in family business continuity: a perspective

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