Entrepreneurs in Family Business Dynasties

by Laura Hougaz (Author)

From the Back Cover
​This book is a longitudinal story of seven Italian-Australian family business dynasties, spanning over a hundred years across three generations, and starting with the founding generation who migrated to Australia in the first half of the 20th century. With hard work and sacrifices, they set the foundations of a long-lasting family culture, and the values that form the glue of a multigenerational family business. The book focuses on the personal, family, and business values that keep family members, across generations, continuing to engage together and successfully, as a family and a business. The book elaborates on the complexity of ‘what is a family business’, what it represents for the generational members that are part of it, how these family businesses have emerged, consolidated and expanded, and finally, how they continue to survive into the third generation, enabling the dynasty to flourish.

About the Author
Dr Laura Hougaz is an experienced senior academic, researcher and manager with extensive experience in the public and private Australian higher education sector. She has received several university and community awards including the Vice Chancellor's Prize for Excellence in Internationalisation. She is currently employed as National Senior Researcher (Policy & Research) and Editor-in-chief of The ACPET Journal for Private Higher Education with the Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET).

Content Level » Professional/practitioner
Keywords » Entrepreneurship - Family business - Migration - Multigenerational entrepreneurship - Succession - Values
Related subjects » Entrepreneurship - Innovation - Technology Management - Organization - Human Resource Management - Social Sciences