Große deutsche Familienunternehmen

What makes the combination of family and business a success? Companies that are over 100 years old offer insights into their history, present and future. Faber-Castell, Hugendubel, Merck, Veltins: this book profiles more than 50 family businesses that have been family-owned for three or more generations. What strategies have they devised to achieve economic success and to weather economic crises and wars? And what are these entrepreneurial families doing right when it comes to securing succession and continuity? The family and business histories examined here provide nuanced answers to these questions. Renowned researchers in the field of family business provide the theoretical framework.