Search for dissertations about: "what is family"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 383 swedish dissertations containing the words what is family.

2. 1. Capturing the antecedents and aftermath of a family business process : The entrepreneurial journey of a displaced agricultural family in Colombia

   Author : Enrique Sandino Vargas; Leona Achtenhagen; Daniel Pittino; Marcela Ramirez-Pasillas; Bengt Johannisson; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; agricultural family; Colombia; displacement; entrepreneurial journey; entrepreneurial process; familiness; family; family business; family capital; family-life context; family habitus; family business habitus; guerrilla; habitualization; habitus; farm; land; rural; violence;

   Abstract : This study examines a displaced agricultural family during its entrepreneurial journey in Colombia using a single case study, following an inductive and interpretivist approach. The main objective of the dissertation is to explain how family interactions, historical events, and context influence the decision to start and potentially reactivate an agricultural family business. READ MORE

4. 2. The coexistence of family, ownership, and business : Conceptualizing entanglement and business family ownering

   Author : Lisa Bäckvall; Leif Melin; Anna Larsson; Robin Holt; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Family Business; Entanglement; Collective Subjective Corpus; Three-Circle Model of Family Business; Social Praxeology; Practice Theory; Business Family; Business Family Ownership Practice; Business Family Owning; Governance; CEO;

   Abstract : This research engages with the topic of business family ownership through an ethnographically inspired study of business governance-related activities constructed as family members’ business-owning practices relationally and over time. In short, it is about what business families do when owning businesses and how this form of owning can be conceptualized. READ MORE

5. 3. Family Matters : Essays on Families, Firms and Funding in the Philippines 1850–2014

   Author : Åsa Malmström Rognes; Mats Larsson; Marie Söderberg; Susanna Fellman; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; family business groups; emerging economies; financial sector development; the Philippines; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

   Abstract : Family Matters – Essays of Families, Firms and Funding in the Philippines 1850–2014 is a study of family business groups in the Philippines. It consists of an introductory essay and four separate papers. READ MORE

6. 4. A family landscape : On the geographical distances between elderly parents and adult children in Sweden

   Author : Anna Hjälm; Gunnar Malmberg; Anders Brändström; Emma Lundholm; Clara Mulder; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Family; elderly parents; adult children; intergenerational; child-parent proximity; migration; distance; ageing; support; register data; Sweden; Human geography; economic geography; Kulturgeografi; ekonomisk geografi; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi;

   Abstract : With a background in the ageing of the population and the new challenges facing individuals, families and the welfare state, the aim of this thesis is to analyse the changing family landscape and the geographical distances between elderly parents and adult children. The thesis consists of four empirical studies derived from three different sources of data: In the first paper (Paper I), historical population data is combined with modern register data for two Swedish regions. READ MORE

7. 5. Living moments in family meetings : A process study in the family business context

   Author : Jenny Helin; Leif Melin; Leona Achtenhagen; Robert Chia; John Shotter; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; process; Bakhtin; meeting; dialogue; conversations; family business; collaborative; qualitative; process organization studies; Business studies; Företagsekonomi;

   Abstract : This dissertation studies meetings from a process perspective. Such an approach, which can be labelled ‘process organisation studies’ is promising in that it directs attention to social processes continuously in the making. The thesis builds on the current development in process organisation studies in two ways. READ MORE