David Hanisch

Management Consulting in Family Businesses

An Organizational Boundary Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Many family businesses refrain from using management consultants to support their strategic decision making. But why do some of them use consultants? And what are the reasons not to use management consultants? This book highlights under which conditions consultants are seen to be helpful and when they are rejected. It researches the use of management consultants in family businesses from different perspectives of organizational boundary research. Family businesses vary from each other. Family generation of owner & management, family influence, goal divergence among owners, and complexity are important dimensions that distinguish family businesses in their use of management consultants. This book helps family business managers and owners to understand when the use of management consultants is beneficial to them and when they should refrain from using consultants. Furthermore, it supports management consultants in tailoring their support to specific family business situations. This research is based on an innovative paper-based conjoint experiment with top managers of large German family businesses analyzing more than 1,700 decisions to use management consultants.

Produktdetails

• Family Business, Bd. 6
• Verlag: Eul, Josef, Verlag GmbH / Josef Eul Verlag GmbH
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9783844102062
• ISBN-10: 384410206X
• Artikelnr.: 36824536

Autorenporträt

David Hanisch holds a B. A. European Business from Dublin City University, Ireland, and a Diplom-Betriebswirt from European School of Business Reutlingen, Germany. He received his doctor¿s degree (Dr. rer. pol.) from the Chair of Family Businesses, Prof. Dr. Sabine Rau, at WHU ¿ Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany. His academic areas of interest are strategic decisions in family businesses. He has worked as a project leader in an international management consultancy focusing on strategic support for family businesses.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction 1.1 Background 1.2 Research Objectives 1.3 Research Approach
1.4 Research Scope 1.5 Structure and Abstracts 2 Contextualizing
Organizational Boundary Decisions 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Theoretical
Background 2.3 Research Model 2.4 Discussion and Conclusion 3 Application
of Metric Conjoint Analysis in Management Research 3.1 Introduction 3.2
Metric Conjoint Analysis 3.3 Field Study Example 3.4 Potential Applications
in Management Research 3.5 Conclusion 4 An Organizational Identity
Perspective on Organizational Boundary Decisions 4.1 Introduction 4.2
Theoretical Background and Hypotheses 4.3 Methodology 4.4 Results 4.5
Discussion 5 Conclusion 5.1 Research Questions Revisited 5.2 Theoretical
Implications 5.3 Practical Implications 5.4 Limitations of this Study and
Options for Future Research