Authors: Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj
ISBN-13: 9781403943019, ISBN-10: 140394301X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: December 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj teaches enterprise culture and entrepreneurship and small business management at the Business School at Brunel University.
This book takes an international perspective of examining South Asian family businesses experiencing inter-generational succession across the United Kingdom, Kenya and the U.S. The book focuses on how family members negotiate their working practices within the context of highly emotional family firms, presenting data collected from both generations of family members.
1 | Family firms in the South Asian diaspora | 1 |
2 | The South Asian diaspora | 5 |
3 | Dreams of dynasties - business start-up in Kenya | 17 |
4 | Growth and succession in Kenyan Asian family firms | 27 |
5 | South Asian entrepreneurship in Britain - push or pull? | 41 |
6 | Working dynamics in British Asian family firms | 54 |
7 | New frontiers - the American South Asian experience | 74 |
8 | Experiences of South Asian American family firms | 85 |
9 | Conclusions | 98 |
10 | Development of family firms over the longer term | 110 |