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Authors: Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj
ISBN-13: 9781403943019, ISBN-10: 140394301X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: December 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj

Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj teaches enterprise culture and entrepreneurship and small business management at the Business School at Brunel University.

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

1Family firms in the South Asian diaspora1
2The South Asian diaspora5
3Dreams of dynasties - business start-up in Kenya17
4Growth and succession in Kenyan Asian family firms27
5South Asian entrepreneurship in Britain - push or pull?41
6Working dynamics in British Asian family firms54
7New frontiers - the American South Asian experience74
8Experiences of South Asian American family firms85
9Conclusions98
10Development of family firms over the longer term110

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