Father-Daughter Succession in Family Business
A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Daphne Halkias, Institute for Social Sciences at Cornell University, USA, The Center for Young and Family Entrepreneurship (CYFE) at University of Bergamo, Italy,
Paul Thurman, Columbia University, USA, Celina Smith, EMLYON Business School, France and Robert S. Nason, Babson College, USA
To whom does a father, retiring from his life as a successful entrepreneur, pass control of the business he has built? Once it would always have been his eldest son, but increasingly women are becoming involved in family firms having risen to positions of influence and leadership.
Using revealing case studies from the daughters who succeeded their entrepreneur fathers in a wide variety of challenging situations, cultures and continents, Father-Daughter Succession in Family Business discusses the changes which have led to daughters gaining influence in more and more family businesses. It looks at the tensions this succession can produce between old notions of how men and women should behave, and the new style of leadership that often comes about when a woman takes the helm.
This book will help consultants, business educators, and researchers, as well as those who are themselves involved in significant family managed enterprises to better understand why it can no longer be assumed in any part of the World that the first born son will take over the reins of the family business.
Contents:
Part I Prologue: Preface: where culture, family and business meet: developing cross-national research on the father-daughter succession process in family firms; Introduction: 'how did all this get started?' A pioneer of father-daughter family business succession research remembers and looks ahead; A historical perspective: from hidden giants to visible leaders? The evolution of women's roles in family business. Part II Asia: China: a case study of father-daughter succession in China, Xin Deng; India: a socio-cultural perspective on father-daughter succession in family business in India; Lebanon: father-daughter succession in family business within a Middle Eastern culture; Malaysia: the challenge of father-daughter succession in Malaysian family business; Pakistan: father-daughter family business succession in Pakistan: a case study; Philippines: father-daughter succession in family business: a Philippine case study; United Arab Emirates: the Al Jaber Group: traditions and transitions in a United Arab Emirates family business. Part III Africa: Egypt: lessons from a father's culture and life values: a female entrepreneur builds her own family firm in Egypt; Nigeria: sociological issues in father-daughter business succession in Nigeria. Part IV Europe: France: father-daughter succession in France: the ONET Group case study; Germany: family business paradox and gender role strain: an example of father-daughter succession from Germany; Greece: dreams of my father: a father-daughter succession story in a Greek family firm; Italy: the challenges of father-daughter succession in an Italian family business; Russia: father-daughter succession in a Russian family business: a case study; Spain: father-daughter succession in Spain: success factors in a male-dominated sector; Scotland/United Kingdom: driving a Scottish family business forward: from faither to wee lassie; Sweden: two-fold succession in a family business matriarchy: a Swedish case; Switzerland: encouraging success: a father-daughter succession story in a Swiss family firm. Part V North America: Canada: gender and culture in father-daughter succession in the family business: a Canadian case study; South Carolina, USA: the challenge of father-daughter succession in family business: a case study in South Carolina; Washington, USA: it's a sweet life: a daughter successfully manages an immigrant family business; West Virginia, USA: father-daughter succession in a West Virginia family business. Part VI South America: Brazil: the course of father-daughter succession in a Brazilian family business; Brazil: the challenge of female successors in a Brazilian family business: a case study; Colombia: father-daughter succession issues in the Colombian family business context; Peru: from father to daughter: a case study of family business succession in Peru. Part VIII Oceania: Australia: the challenge of father-daughter succession in family business: a case study from the land down under; New Zealand: the daughter takes over a residential home building family business: a case study from Aotearoa New Zealand; Index.
About the Author:
Daphne Halkias, PhD. is Senior Research Fellow, The Center for Youth and Family Enterprise (CYFE) at University of Bergamo in Italy; Research Affiliate at the Institute for Social Sciences at Cornell University and Affiliate, Institute of Coaching, McLean Hospital at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA
Paul Thurman, MBA is Clinical Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia Business School, Columbia University in New York, USA.
Celina Smith, PhD. is Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at EMLYON Business School in Lyon, France and a Visiting Fellow at Imperial College, UK.
Robert Nason, MBA is Global Program Manager of the STEP Project for Family Enterprising at Babson College, Massachusetts, USA and a Board Member of the New England Chapter of the Family Firm Institute.
Subjects:
Management & Business Studies:
Business, Gender & Culture; Entrepreneurship & SMEs; Business Planning; Leadership
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Vulnerable Workers
Safety, Well-being and Precarious Work
Malcolm Sargeant, Middlesex University, London, UK and Maria Giovannone, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
The leading academic authorities contributing to this book have been involved in major studies carried out for international organisations, individual governments, and national trades' union organisations; in Vulnerable Workers they consider the growth of job insecurity, the prevalence of flexible or temporary work, and the emergence of precarious forms of self-employment. They look at the new market economies of post-communist Eastern Europe and China, where economic development may occur at the expense of workers' lives and health; 'misclassification' by employers of workers as 'contractors', denying them access to rights; and the plight of migrant, transient and 'invisible' workers. The impact of supply chain business strategies on the most vulnerable workers; and on the complex relationships between levels of job security and the presence of different kinds of risks are similarly assessed.
The contributors also propose responses to the challenges they highlight. The role of employee representatives is examined, together with the potential to enhance worker capability through organisational change. New legislative approaches, and changes to traditional compensation and social security systems are considered. Academics and researchers, policy makers, regulators, trades unionists and occupational health professionals - and wise employers - will all find a use for this book.
Contents:
Preface; The health, safety and well-being of vulnerable workers, Brenda Barrett and Malcolm Sargeant; We've been down this road before; vulnerable work and occupational health in historical perspective, Michael Quinlan; Supply chains and the protection of vulnerable workers, Phil James and David Walters; Precarious work in times of crisis: regulatory discourses and labour standards in the new EU member Baltic states, Charles Woolfson; Work organisation, new forms of employment and good practices for occupational health and safety: evidence from Italy within the European context, Maria Giovannone and Michele Turaboschi; OHS of migrant workers: an international concern, M. Boocock, Z. Hannif, S. Jamieson, R. Lamare, F. Lamm, C. Martin, N. McDonnell, C. Robertson, P. Schweder and B. Shulruf; OHS in organisations: applying Amartya Sen's capability approach and organisational climate, Andrea Bernardi; The health of vulnerable workers in Italy, Carlo Lucarelli and Barbara Boschetto; Employees without protections: the misclassification of vulnerable workers in New York, J. Ryan Lamare; The right to occupational health and safety and its legislation in China, Chang Kai; Seeking solutions to precarious working in the growth of New Zealand dairy farming – a research agenda, Rupert Tipples; Occupational health and safety of contingent migrant labour in the Kuwait construction industry, Cathy Robertson; Index.
About the Author:
Malcolm Sargeant is Professor of Labour Law at Middlesex University, UK, and author/ co-author of Employment Law (Fifth Edition) 2010, Essentials of Employment Law (Tenth Edition) 2009, Questions and Answers on Employment Law (Third Edition) 2009, Age Discrimination in Employment 1999, Age Discrimination 2011 and Age Discrimination and Diversity 2011. In 2010 Professor Sargeant organised a major conference in London on vulnerable workers jointly between Middlesex University and the Association for the Study of International and Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations (ADAPT).
Dr Maria Giovannone lecturer at the "Marco Biagi" International and Comparative Study Centre, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, in Italy and is the ADAPT Research Fellow responsible for research into health and safety at work. She has a law degree and the topic for her PhD was industrial relations, on issues related to occupational health and safety in Italy and the UK. Dr Giovannnone has worked for a firm specialising in labour law, undertaken research for the Italian Ministry of Labour and is a member of the Certification Commission established at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, to certify labour contracts in Italy.
Subjects:
Management & Business Studies:
People Management; Risk Management; Business Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility
Dewey Code:331.1'3-dc22BIC Code:KJR
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Alessandro Raho
Michael Bracewell with an introduction by Nicholas Cullinan
Exploring the career of Alessandro Raho (b.1971) from the early 1990s to the present day, this monograph, the first of its kind on the artist, places Raho in the context of the period in which his career was established and has flourished.
A principal figure in the generation of contemporary artists leading the current revival of figurative painting in the UK, Raho graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1994. He was included, alongside contemporaries such as Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and the Chapman Brothers, in the groundbreaking exhibition Brilliant! New Art from London at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in 1995. It was through this exhibition that the YBAs began to establish an international reputation, and it is now recognised as one of the defining moments in contemporary British art.
Fifteen years on, Raho's work offers a quieter sensibility to that of his YBA peers. Exploring the major themes and subjects found in his work, alongside his artistic and philosophic influences, this groundbreaking publication will appeal to experts and artistic enthusiasts alike and will be an essential purchase for all those interested in contemporary art.
Contents:
Acknowledgements; Introduction, Nicholas Cullinan; Alessandro Raho, Michael Bracewell; Catalogue of works; Chronology, Thomas Williams; Select solo and group exhibitions; Public collections; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Michael Bracewell is an author, journalist and broadcaster. A regular contributor to Frieze, he has also written catalogue essays for numerous contemporary artists including Anish Kapoor, Sam Taylor-Wood, Bridget Riley and Gilbert & George. Nicholas Cullinan is curator of International Modern Art at Tate Modern. He has recently curated Cy Tyombly and Nicolas Poussin: Arcadian Painters at the Dulwich Picture Gallery and co-authored the accompanying exhibition catalogue. A contributor to Frieze, Contemporary, The Independent and Tema Celeste, he has previously worked at the National Portrait Gallery, the Estorick Collection and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.
Subjects:
Fine Art:
Contemporary Art and Visual Studies; Modern British Painting; Painting
Dewey Code:759.2-dc22BIC Code:AFC-AGB
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November 2011290 x 240 mm144 pages
Hardback978-1-84822-093-5£35.00
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W. Barns-Graham: A Studio Life
New Edition
Lynne Green
British abstract painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) played a key role in the development of modern abstract art in Britain. This new paperback edition of Lynne Green's classic monograph completes the story of the artist's life and work with a new Coda covering Barns-Graham's final years, which draws for the first time on the artist's personal diaries and notebooks.
Born in Fife, Scotland, for over sixty years Barns-Graham lived and worked in St Ives, at the heart of the avant-garde group of artists who made the town internationally famous. Arriving in Cornwall just months after the modernists Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo, Barns-Graham was quickly absorbed into their inner circle. She was subsequently one of the Crypt Group of young moderns, and a founder member of the breakaway Penwith Society of Arts.
In what is an important contribution to the history of British art, Lynne Green examines the importance of Barns-Graham's national tradition and of her teachers at Edinburgh School of Art, particularly the Scottish Colourists William Gillies and John Maxwell. Barns-Graham's developing commitment to abstraction is discussed in detail: never afraid to experiment, her work is revealed as embodying many of the issues central to post-war abstract art.
Barns-Graham continued to work right up to her death with the energy and enthusiasm usually associated with the young. Towards the end of her life her art started to attract the attention it deserved, but this was not always the case. Lynne Green's insightful text restores Wilhelmina Barns-Graham to her rightful place in the story of the St Ives School, establishes her personal achievement as a painter, and by implication the importance of her wider contribution to twentieth-century art.
Since her death at the age of 91 Barns-Graham's work has enjoyed an increase in attention, not least in the auction rooms. It has also and most importantly, been the subject of re-appraisal through a series of exhibitions and publications. This book remains, however, the only in-depth biographical study of an artist who, despite often being unjustly overlooked, had the courage and determination to pursue her own path, and with spectacular and breathtaking success. In the last decade of her life Barns-Graham's creative invention blossomed and her output dramatically increased, not least because of her enthusiastic adoption of cutting-edge contemporary screenprinting techniques. In these years she worked with a new sense of urgency and creative freedom, in which risk-taking became a central theme. The result was some of the most exhilarating, joyful, and life-affirming work ever produced by a British artist.
Contents:
Editorial Note; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Foreword, Martin Kemp; Preface to the Second Edition; Prologue; 1 Childhood and the First Stirrings of Art; 2 Art College and a Wider World; 3 A Cornish Haven: The First Years of Freedom; 4 'Britain's Foremost Woman Abstract Painter'; 5 Variations and Meditations; 6 Completing the Circle; 7 Today is a Gift: Coda; Notes; Chronology; Works in Public and Corporate Collections; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Lynne Green is an art historian whose specialist fields are British modernism and contemporary art. She was the co-founder and former editor of Contemporary Art (now Contemporary) magazine and was formerly an exhibition organiser at the Hayward Gallery before becoming curator of Southampton City Art Gallery. Her previous publications include Painting with Smoke: David Roberts Raku Potter (2000, revised edition 2009) and Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Landscape for Art (2008), as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and substantial essays. In 2007 she founded Greendrake Press.
Subjects:
Art and Visual Studies:
Modern British Painting; Modern British Prints; Twentieth-Century Art and Visual Studies
Dewey Code:759.2'911-dc22BIC Code:ACX
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November 2011290 x 249 mm344 pages
Paperback978-1-84822-095-9£25.00
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Leading Complex Projects and Tools for Complex Projects
Two Volume Set
Kaye Remington
This two-volume collection includes Tools for Complex Projects, which Kaye Remington co-authored with Julian Pollack as well as the follow-up title, Leading Complex Projects, for which she is sole author.
Leading Complex Projects draws on original, empirical research into successful leadership of complex projects, including 70 in-depth interviews with people, across a broad range of industries, selected for their roles in guiding complex projects towards successful outcomes. The book, structured around the major themes from the interviews, explains and applies emerging best-practice in a coherent and focused way. A potent combination of wisdom from leaders in practice and the latest knowledge from many fields of research will engage experienced practitioners, as well as those who are teaching and researching projects, complexity and leadership.
Tools for Complex Projects draws on the research in the areas of project management, complexity theory and systems thinking to provide a ready reference for understanding and managing the increasing complexity of projects and programmes.
The main part of the book provides a series of fourteen project tools. Some of these tools may be used at the level of the whole project life-cycle. Others may be applied ad hoc at any time. In each case, the authors provide: detailed guidelines for using the tool, information on its purpose and the types of complexity for which it is most appropriate, the theoretical background to the tool, a practical example of its use, and any necessary words of caution.
Together the two books provide project managers with rigorous and highly practical methods for understanding, structuring and managing the most complex of projects.