Family Capitalism

First published in 1994. The articles in this collection are concerned with family-owned business enterprises and span three centuries and three continents. Family firms account for between 75 per cent and 99 per cent of all companies in the EC, and 65 per cent of GDP and employment in Europe. While the huge majority of family businesses are very small-scale, many are not. In the United States one-third of Fortune 500 companies are currentlyfamily-controlled.

Chapter 1 Family Capitalism, Geoffrey Jones, Mary B. Rose; Chapter 2 The Family Firm in Industrial Capitalism: International Perspectives on Hypotheses and History, Roy Church; Chapter 3 Fortune and Failure: The Survival of Family Firms in Eighteenth-Century India, Sheila Smith; Chapter 4 The Society of Friends and the Family Firm, 1700–1830, Ann Prior, Maurice Kirby; Chapter 5 The Small Family Firm in Victorian Britain, Stana Nenadic; Chapter 6 Build a Firm, Start Another: The Bromleys and Family Firm Entrepreneurship in the Philadelphia Region, Philip Scranton; Chapter 7 The Dutch Family Firm confronted with Chandler’s Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism, 1890–1940, Keetie E. Sluyterman, Hélène J.M. Winkelman; Chapter 8 The Large Family Firm in Twentieth-Century France, Emmanuel Chadeau;

Geoffrey Jones; Mary Rose