Entrepreneurship in Family Business

This book presents an excellent analysis ofhow a family business isdifferent from other forms of organization and especially its peculiarities in relation to entrepreneurship.Focusing on small and medium-sized second-generation Chinese family businesses this book provides an in-depth analysis on the relationship between the firms' family attributes - or "familiness" as conceptualized in this book - and entrepreneurial processes, which leads to different outcomes.Eight casesfrom China are presented in this book and a dual-level approach is proposed for research on entrepreneurship in family businesses, emphasising both firm processes and the role of individual owner-managers. Readers will also find several useful policy and practice-orientedperspectivesin this book.