Entrepreneurs in Family Business Dynasties [electronic resource] : Stories of Italian-Australian Family Businesses Over 100 Years / by Laura Hougaz.

Family Business Around the World -- The Complexity of Family Business -- The Role of Values in Family Business -- The Entrepreneurial Origins of Family Business -- Italian Migration to Australia and its Descendants -- The Families in the Case Studies and Their Business -- Capturing the Life Stories of Individuals in Family Businesses -- The Creation of an Entrepreneurial Enterprise: The First Generation: The Entrepreneurs -- From a Business for a Family to a Family Business: The Second Generation: The Consolidators -- Longevity and Success in Family Business: The Third Generation: The Custodians of a Legacy.

This book is a longitudinal story of seven Italian-Australian family business dynasties, spanning over a hundred years across three generations, and starting with the founding generation who migrated to Australia in the first half of the 20th century. With hard work and sacrifices, they set the foundations of a long-lasting family culture, and the values that form the glue of a multigenerational family business. The book focuses on the personal, family, and business values that keep family members, across generations, continuing to engage together and successfully, as a family and a business. The book elaborates on the complexity of ‘what is a family business’, what it represents for the generational members that are part of it, how these family businesses have emerged, consolidated and expanded, and finally, how they continue to survive into the third generation, enabling the dynasty to flourish.