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Topics of Family Business Governance

Insights on Structures, Strategies, and Executives

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Overview

  • Discusses the role of the board in family businesses
  • Provides unique arguments and solutions for issues of family businesses
  • Presents insights into recession management as part of governance
  • Covers all strategic and leadership matters relevant in a governance context

Part of the book series: Management for Professionals (MANAGPROF)

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. The Design of Boards for Comprehensive Tasks and Efficient Processes

  2. The Board’s Discussions on Topics of Family Enterprises’ Strategies

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About this book

This book focuses on the role of the board in family businesses and specifically on processes and topics of strategic importance. It comprises all the relevant topics which need to be addressed on a regular basis such as strategy development, financial management, and leadership. The pros and cons of each issue are elaborated. This is one of the few books which addresses family businesses from governance systems to the role of executives. The diverse set of examples carefully collected by the authors and an in-depth discussion on the topics provide readers with valuable insights to broaden and enrich the effectiveness of governance.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany

    Hermut Kormann

  • Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Shanghai, China

    Birgit Suberg

About the editors

Hermut Kormann served as CFO (1989-99) and CEO (2000-08) of Voith, a 150-year-old German family enterprise. Prior to Voith, he held positions at Brown, Boveri & Cie. (currently called ABB) and Booz & Co., management consultants. Dr. Kormann has served on various supervisory boards of family enterprises. He advises owning families on issues of owner strategy. Dr. Kormann is a Visiting Professor at Leipzig University (Germany) and Professor at Zeppelin University (Germany) where he lectures on leadership, strategy, and governance in family-owned businesses. 

Birgit Suberg is an Associate Professor of Practice at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou (China). She is also the Managing Director of a Shanghai-based consulting company. After starting out in strategic consulting and project management in Germany, she has worked in China in several leading positions for multinational and Chinese family and founder-controlled firms. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Topics of Family Business Governance

  • Book Subtitle: Insights on Structures, Strategies, and Executives

  • Editors: Hermut Kormann, Birgit Suberg

  • Series Title: Management for Professionals

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58019-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58018-6Published: 19 November 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58021-6Published: 19 November 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-58019-3Published: 18 November 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2192-8096

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-810X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 157

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Management, Entrepreneurship, Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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