The main purpose of this text is to present an special issue with a set of researches that
describes the history of companies, groups, and business families managed in Latin …

The groups of settlers who arrived in Punta Arenas in Southern Patagonia in the second half
of the 19th century, established the trade in hunting products, leather and exotic feathers …

As opposed to most literature on the history of family firms, this article focuses on the
continuance of business–products, services, markets–which is not the same as the longevity …

During the 1990s, a series of institutional transformations took place that strongly affected
the national productive structure, as well as its agents. Among the main effects of the new …

All family businesses face an inescapable succession process. Succession means the
process by which a family business is transferred from one generation to the next, involving …

This chapter is focused in a methodological frame to study the practices of entrepreneurial
agents and the startups in nontechnological sectors in the middle-income countries. The …

Las empresas familiares tienen gran importancia social y económica en el mundo, ya que
representan casi el 90% de los negocios en diversas regiones, generan más de la mitad del …

This chapter focuses on the process of transformation of Latin American family businesses
between the 1870s and the early twenty-first century. This chapter presents, in a very …

Se indagan las transformaciones acaecidas en la estructura empresarial azucarera durante
las primeras décadas del siglo XX, con especial énfasis en las estrategias que …

The internationalization process in recent decades has been discussed from different
approaches. In this chapter, we study the evolution of selected Latin American and Spanish …