Embracing Paradoxes in South African Family Businesses

Embracing Paradoxes in South African Family Businesses

Author: Dora Jurd De Girancourt

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9781928276845

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"Did you know that close to eighty per cent of registered businesses in South Africa are family owned? This book explores the backdrops to these unique businesses and analyses the profound emotional and human drivers that form their core identity. The authors take the reader on a journey across South Africa during which they met the owners of more than thirty-five family businesses - some multi-generational, others more recently established - from diverse sectors and origins. Thanks to live testimonies, a thorough analysis of the structure and functioning of each business, and rich family portraits, they raise the main paradoxes that shape these businesses today and suggest solutions to manage both the emotional and rational aspects that characterise them. How is the individual empowered by the group? How is a spirit of entrepreneurship transmitted form one generation to another? how is the right balance between modernity and tradition achieved? How does one institutionalise innovation within the family? By unveiling fascinating family stories and raising underlying questions, this book turns the spotlight on a largely unknown segment of the South African economy."--Back cover.


Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship in the MENA Region

Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship in the MENA Region

Author: Nehme Azoury

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-01-22

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 3030884473

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This edited collection presents state of the art research on entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship in the MENA region. Combining practical and academic insights, it sheds light on future directions for the sector and addresses the many challenges that entrepreneurs face, for instance, the lack of special laws and regulations, lack of financial assistance and government recognition as well as the lack of social awareness. It covers topics such as entrepreneurship and sustainability, female entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, and future research directions. Ultimately this book aims to advance research in the field and highlights the importance of social entrepreneurs in the Middle East


Family Businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa

Family Businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: Moses Acquaah

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-06-29

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1137361433

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This book is the first of its kind to highlight the importance of family businesses to economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. It examines the managerial, behavioral, and strategic issues facing these companies and offers conclusive statements about their performance and influence on the region. Family businesses have been found to outperform non-family businesses in advanced industrialized economies, yet no such information exists on the importance of these companies which dominate the economic landscape of sub-Saharan Africa. Through empirical evidence and cross-country data, a team of expert contributors explore matters related to the management of family-owned businesses, such as how they evaluate employee productivity and performance, manage human resources, view governance practices and the role of women, and other sensitive issues. This is a seminal text for students and researchers in family business, entrepreneurship, strategic management, and family business owners looking to improve and advance their companies for the greater good of sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the continent.


Family Business as Paradox

Family Business as Paradox

Author: Amy Schuman

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2010-10-13

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0230291767

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Learn how to overcome the paradox of family business, and understand that synergy of the two entities will bring greater success than choosing one over the other


Thrift and Its Paradoxes

Thrift and Its Paradoxes

Author: Catherine Alexander

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2022-04-08

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1800734638

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Thrift is a central concern for most people, especially in turbulent economic times. It is both an economic and an ethical logic of frugal living, saving and avoiding waste for long-term kin care. These logics echo the ancient ideal of household self-sufficiency, contrasting with capitalism’s wasteful present-focused growth. But thrift now exceeds domestic matters straying across scales to justify public expenditure cuts. Through a wide range of ethnographic contexts this book explores how practices and moralities of thrift are intertwined with austerity, debt, welfare, and patronage across various social and temporal scales and are constantly re-negotiated at the nexus of socio-economic, religious, and kinship ideals and praxis.


Beyond Digital

Beyond Digital

Author: Paul Leinwand

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2022-01-04

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1647822335

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Two world-renowned strategists detail the seven leadership imperatives for transforming companies in the new digital era. Digital transformation is critical. But winning in today's world requires more than digitization. It requires understanding that the nature of competitive advantage has shifted—and that being digital is not enough. In Beyond Digital, Paul Leinwand and Matt Mani from Strategy&, PwC's global strategy consulting business, take readers inside twelve companies and how they have navigated through this monumental shift: from Philips's reinvention from a broad conglomerate to a focused health technology player, to Cleveland Clinic's engagement with its broader ecosystem to improve and expand its leading patient care to more locations around the world, to Microsoft's overhaul of its global commercial business to drive customer outcomes. Other case studies include Adobe, Citigroup, Eli Lilly, Hitachi, Honeywell, Inditex, Komatsu, STC Pay, and Titan. Building on a major new body of research, the authors identify the seven imperatives that leaders must follow as the digital age continues to evolve: Reimagine your company's place in the world Embrace and create value via ecosystems Build a system of privileged insights with your customers Make your organization outcome-oriented Invert the focus of your leadership team Reinvent the social contract with your people Disrupt your own leadership approach Together, these seven imperatives comprise a playbook for how leaders can define a bolder purpose and transform their organizations.