Objective
The project takes a number of long-lived family firms in different national contexts (France, Germany, Italy) and compares them with similar firms in the UK and US, some of which no longer are family firms. It examines the effect of regulation, fiscal systems, and law and inheritance patterns on corporate development; and investigates the efficiency of family firms. It will challenge the view that there is a one- way trajectory from small- scale family owned business to large joint stock corporations in which professional management is separated from a widely dispersed ownership.
A large number of example in fact go the other way, from family firm to joint-stock corporation, but then back to control through non-listed family-dominated holding companies. Are there particular technologies or levels of capital intensitity that are most likely to be the focus of family business? What are the consequences for the overall course of economic development and change in the European setting?
This issue is particularly important in the discussion of what are often held to be the peculiarities of continental European or "Rhineland" capitalism, and the current debate about its strengths and weaknesses. China and India, where there is a great deal of dynamic family enter prise, are interested in drawing lessons from the European model. The theme of the peculiarities of European corporate development has also become an important part of the discussion about how European social and legal structures adapt to globalisation.
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Programme(s)
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Topic(s)
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2004-MOBILITY-10
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Coordinator
SAN DOMENICO DI FIESOLE (FI)
Italy
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