Based on long-term qualitative research with century-old business families in the German
context, we emphasize the role of narratives. Understood as discursive social practices, they …

The overlap of business and family roles, and how they are linked in entrepreneurial
families, requires intergenerational negotiation. Biographical case reconstruction analysis of …

Scholars have recently paid growing attention to the transfer of family legacies across
generations, but existing work has been mainly focused on an inward-oriented, intra-family …

'Bringing the family and its related complexity back into the discussion of how to build
healthy and long-term oriented relationships in business families, Annika Hall's book is both …

This edited volume provides an anthropological study of family businesses and business
families. In previous research on family firms and business families, the comparative cross …

Family business narratives connect the past, present, and future. This chapter offers an initial
conceptualization of the parts of narratives dedicated to myths, through a systems view of the …

Purpose The question of crisis resistance and resilience of long-lived family businesses
became particularly volatile with the beginning of the Corona crisis. In this context the project …

What enables business families to engage in entrepreneurial activities across generations?
This chapter explores this question by focusing on the concept of “entrepreneurial legacy,” …

Historical narratives are considered to play a role of consolidation within family firms over
time. They instill a common vision of family business history made up of values, myths and …

2 Family Business Review 00 (0) formal history in family businesses. The distinction
between memories and history reflects the historical process by which humanity moved from …