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- Provides a unique reference to growth trajectories of German hidden champions
- Includes the background and causes of downfall of family businesses
- Explores the successful structural diversity typical to family business such as Volkswagen
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Maximilian Lantelme, Laura K. C. Seibold, Hermut Kormann
About the authors
Maximilian Lantelme is a doctoral candidate studying the development and downfall of family firms at Zeppelin University, Germany. He also works as a strategy consultant in the field of mergers and acquisitions for an international management consulting firm.
Laura K. C. Seibold analyzed in her PhD thesis the growth of family firms. Dr. Seibold now works as assistant to the CEO of a large insurance company and is a member of the second generation of a German family business that operates in mechanical and software engineering.
Hermut Kormann worked as a CFO and CEO for many years. After retirement, he has held board assignments at Robert Bosch, TRUMPF, and various other family companies in Germany and abroad. He is a Visiting Professor at Leipzig University and Apl. Professor at Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen. Dr. Kormann and his students published various books on strategy issues of family businesses with Springer, and his work is featured regularly in German and Chinese journals on family businesses.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: German Family Enterprises
Book Subtitle: A Sourcebook of Structure, Growth, Downfall and Corporate Longevity
Authors: Maximilian Lantelme, Laura K. C. Seibold, Hermut Kormann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69759-4
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: 978-3-030-69758-7Published: 27 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69759-4Published: 26 March 2021
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXII, 202
Number of Illustrations: 71 b/w illustrations
Topics: Family Business, Organization, Industrial and Organizational Psychology