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In this first chapter we will discuss the main milestones in the brief history of family business management, in an attempt to provide the reader with a better understanding of the approach we adopt and the contribution we wish to make through this book.
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In advanced societies a host of different social systems coexist (political parties, sports clubs, neighborhood associations, educational centers, religious confessions, colonies of immigrants, professional groups, administrations, families, businesses, etc.). People as individuals belong simultaneously to different social systems without any disorder, as there is no confusion about which system they are in at any given moment. Thus, someone can be the leader of a political party, but when he is at his children’s school he belongs to that social system as a parent role, not as a political leader. Therefore, his behavior will be different; it will not occur to him to give orders to the other members, as he would in his party. The problem with interpenetration of systems [see E. Kepner, ‘The family and the firm: A co-evolutionary perspective’, Organizational Dynamics, vol. 12, No. 1 (1983), pp. 57–70]
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Gimeno, A., Baulenas, G., Coma-Cros, J. (2010). History of family business management. In: Family business models. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230282148_2
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