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the financial structure, which might have held the structure together more firmly, did not play a large part in pulling the parts together into a cooperation. The purposes of the accounting system were to track sales and purchases and to prevent fraud. ( Brown, 1995 : 2)

Figures 9.1 and 9.2 illustrate the corporate and organisational structure of a medium-sized Thai family business group. The majority of the group’s revenues and assets are concentrated in steel distribution and real estate businesses ( Tanlamai, 1996 ). However, as illustrated in Figure 9.1 , the corporate structure emphasises many of the firm’s diverse technology affiliates and subsidiaries. Its subsidiaries and involvement in numerous joint ventures is indicative of a highly-flexible deal or project-based structure that allows financial assets to be easily shifted between separate legal entities ( Carney and Gedajlovic, 2002b ). Sahaviriya’s organisational structure, depicted in Figure 9.2 , describes a simple product structure consisting of two support offices, an office of the executive and a financial and administrative group.

Figure 9.1 . SVOA’s shareholder structure

Figure 9.2 . SVOA’s organisational structure

The structuring of the larger group’s assets across smaller units with individual legal identities is a mechanism for asset mobilisation. It also reduces the enterprise’s visibility, which can be a crucial defence mechanism when operating in hostile environments ( Hodder, 1996 ). Moreover, this structure provides for a means of achieving monitoring and feedback on unit performance when subsidiary managers are not trusted or when the organisation’s capacity to perform a thorough internal auditing function is inadequate ( Carney, 1998b ).

Managerial processes are infused with paternalistic leadership values ( Westwood, 1997 ); the consequences to the organisational structure include high centralisation, low formalisation and non-complex structural processes. The human resource implications of such structures are significant. Immediate and extended family and trusted quasi-family employees may be expected to be highly committed and motivated members of the management team ( Whitley, 1999 ). On the other hand, the commitment of those employees lacking close relationships with the patriarchy is tenuous. Non-trusted employees in the organisation may be subject to a functional handicap because ‘didactic leadership emasculates subordinates by depriving them of the information necessary to have a clear idea of what is going on in the organisation’ ( Westwood, 1997 : 469). Consequently, these firms encounter difficulties attracting and retaining management talent, and employee turnover tends to be very high with exit decisions precipitated by marginal salary differences.

In Southeast Asian family firms, such characteristics are often attributed to cultural ( Westwood, 1997 ), institutional ( Hamilton and Biggart, 1988 ) and national business system characteristics ( Whitley, 1992 ). However, the simple organisational structures and management processes adopted by FBGs may represent an efficient response to the imperatives of latecomer industrialisation. In the catch-up phase of industrialisation, much of the imported technology was routine, mature and highly codified. Owner-managers did not require a large support staff or elaborate technostructure to assimilate these technologies ( Mintzberg, 1979 ). Export-oriented development required product-market strategies based upon prices and low costs. In these circumstances, owner-managers could utilise centralised organisational structures without any economic penalty. In mature commodity markets characterised by rapid price movements, firms lacking the management capacity to sell directly into overseas markets did not develop extensive planning, control and marketing infrastructures nor seek to differentiate their products through innovation. Moreover, even if FBGs had attempted to attract and retain them, management talent was in short supply.

An overview of food safety and COVID-19 infection

Zafer Ceylan , ... Turgay Cetinkaya , in Environmental and Health Management of Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19 ) , 2021

12.2.2 Animal resources

Breeders play a major role in animal production. With socioeconomic concerns, instead of small-sized family businesses, farms that are formed by the gathering of thousands of animals in closed areas have increased. Diseases transmitted through animal origin have increased because of industrial animal production. CoVs are responsible for respiratory and intestinal infections in animals. 56 , 57 For example, the host animal for MERS-CoV was dromedary camels. Foodborne transmission through consumption of unpasteurized camel milk and raw camel meat was an infection source for humans. 58 Like MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 is also a zoonotic virus and has a genome similarity of 96% to a SARS-related bat CoV. 56 In fact, a zoonotic transmission from animals to humans has been reported in a Dutch mink farm during the COVID-19 pandemic. 56 Around 20 million mink in Europe have been culled in case of further zoonotic transmission possibility. 59 , 60 On November 12, 2020 the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced guidelines about the exposure of humans or animals to SARS-CoV-2 from wild, livestock, companion, and aquatic animals. 56

Determining disease-resistant animal species by epigenetic studies may be beneficial for future applications. Genomic selection applications for animals that have resistance to diseases, will make a significant contribution to preventing the spread of COVID-19. In this way breeding studies could be carried out for the ones that are resistant to COVID-19. 61 , 62 Animals that are the sources of infection are a concern. To avoid the SARS-CoV-2 that causes disease, while planning animal shelters, attention should be paid to natural ventilation, adequate living space, controlled production and hygiene. All these data show that further investigation is needed for livestock, and precautions need to be taken against COVID-19 on an industrial scale.

Slower, richer, fairer: better economic health in ‘slow cities’

Paul Tranter , Rodney Tolley , in Slow Cities , 2020

7.6 Conclusion

The aim of this chapter was to shed light on the economic realities of life in the future ‘slower city’, for families, businesses and the city itself. It set out to ask if this would be an economically beneficial change and if so, by how much and for whom. In this concluding summary, we can now say that the evidence is clear that the benefits for economic health of the ‘slower city’ are significant, and that these benefits are spread across all of the sectors we examined. Households and individuals will reap rewards from lower transport costs, higher levels of disposable income, greater resilience to economic shocks, lower medical costs, increased accessibility and increased modal choice and of course amenity benefits from greater enjoyment from walking and cycling. Businesses will benefit from more local customers, a more accessible labour force, lower transport and parking costs, less congestion, and increased agglomeration efficiencies. City administrations will find that the many vehicle and municipal externalities that fall on the public purse will be reduced or eliminated, tax yield per unit of land will rise, and agglomeration economies will support city competitiveness. Finally, we must recognise that in a world where over 55 per cent of the population live in urban areas, the slower city will make a very large and essential contribution to reducing the global financial burden of decarbonising transport, which is necessary to prevent climate catastrophe.

Moreover, the health benefits of physical activity are also an important issue for the assessment of the economic benefits of slower city transport. Typically, few of the health disbenefits of driving are included in cost-benefit analyses: if health is examined, the usual focus is on road trauma (injury and deaths), but rarely on the negative health impacts of sedentarism. As sitting is fast becoming ‘the new smoking’ ( Baddeley, Sornalingam, & Cooper, 2016 ), any economic assessment of the costs of speed should ideally consider lack of physical activity in addition to the individual, business and municipal considerations examined in this chapter.

In sum, the economic health case for ‘slow cities’ is very powerful indeed. Individuals, businesses and cities themselves will benefit hugely from the boost to individual city attractiveness through enhancing city branding and identity, promoting tourism, encouraging inward investments and attracting the creative class. Because the economic health case for the ‘slow city’ is strong (just as is the human and the environmental health case), a variety of strategies are needed to achieve a slowing of city transport—and these strategies will be examined in the following chapters.

L. Craig , in International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home , 2012

Unpaid Domestic Labour over Time

Unpaid labour is work that is not remunerated but has an economic value. The term covers a very wide range of activities, including subsistence farming, gardening, drawing water, work in family businesses, food and drink preparation and cleanup, laundry and clothes care, grounds and animal care, home maintenance, household management, cleaning, purchasing goods, purchasing services, looking after children, and caring for others. In developed countries the term unpaid labour is often used synonymously with housework, and usually occurs in a domestic setting. The relationship between home and work is entwined with the issue of unpaid domestic labour, and with gender roles.

Partly because it so often occurs in the home, unpaid labour is not widely recognised as being real work. In contemporary economics, production is usually defined as goods and services that have monetary value. The conceptualisation of economic value as necessarily monetary is related to the technological and social shifts that occurred over the course of the Industrial Revolution. During the period of industrialisation, the economically productive family unit that was encompassed within preindustrial social organisation was largely replaced by the independent wage labourer. With the new capitalist economic order came the idea that wages were the measure of worth. At the same time, and in counterpoint, came the idea that those who did not draw wages were not part of the real economy.

The definition of labour became both gendered and spatially differentiated. As men increasingly did waged work, unpaid work became the more exclusive responsibility of women. Men’s role as breadwinner now took place outside the household, while women’s primary roles as housewife and mother took place in the home. Work and home became identified with men and with women, respectively. The goods and services men provided in the market were considered economically productive, while the goods and services women provided in the household were not. The housewife was no longer regarded as contributing to household prosperity, but as dependent on the wage of her husband. Thus domestic labour lost its place as a recognised aspect of economic life.

Public and private were conceptualised as constituting separate spheres. The public sphere, the province of men, was where economic activity took place, and the private sphere of the home, the place for women, was where nurturing, leisure, and recuperation occurred. Home was a haven from work, not a site of it. The unpaid household labour required to make the home a site in which the worker could rest and recharge his energies was also categorised as leisure, rather than as productive activity. Housework itself had changed little, but the way it was culturally framed, understood, and described was profoundly different. Women’s domestic labour remained demanding and essential but was redefined as homemaking, which in this worldview was by definition nonwork. The partial spatial coverage of economics obscured the work required to run a home, resulting in gender bias.

Domestic labour had become economically invisible, but the duties of the homemaker grew. Over the course of the twentieth century, a campaign of expert information was directed at the organisation of work in the household and at appropriate ways of family living ( Reiger, 1985 ). Housework remained time-consuming. While some household labour was reduced with mechanisation (e.g., laundry), new standards of cleanliness and nutrition meant that in many cases new tasks replaced the old. Similarly, rises in living standards resulting from larger housing increased, rather than reduced, the domestic demands. The higher domestic workload associated with improved living standards was paralleled by a rise in expectations of the time and attention mothers should provide to children. The amount, type, and intensity of care regarded as necessary for children expanded. Optimal child development was thought to be best served by the constant presence of a mother in the home.

The analytical background

In Guerilla Capitalism , 2009

1.5.2 Institutional theory of economic organisations in East Asia

Given the fact that Vietnam shares the Chinese-connection culture with other East Asian countries, the source of literature on economic organisations in East Asian successful economies is worth reviewing here. The various works on East Asian economic organisations (see especially Redding and Whitley, 1990; Whitley, 1992 ; and Hamilton, Biggart and Orru, 1997 ) have one thing in common: they all sought an institutional explanation for the structural pattern of economic organisations and the economic successes of East Asian countries. The important contribution of this source of literature is that they have taken the institutional, historical and political factors (e.g. family structure and government-business relations) seriously and attempted to understand the organisation's relationship to them. Economic firms are seen as ‘embedded’ in their societal context. Different levels and ‘types’ of trust rooted from the family and the village, for example, are considered important variables to the forms and functioning of different types of business organisations in different societies. The role of the state is emphasised.

Redding and Whitley (1990) and Whitley (1992) , for example, make detailed comparative analyses of the dominant forms of businesses in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. They specify major characteristics for each type of business (Chinese family businesses in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Korean chaebol and large Japanese corporations) and argue that these characteristics are associated with the societal contexts in which they have become established. They identify five main interconnected characteristics of the societal context which have ‘determined’ those forms of businesses:

Authority patterns;

Trust relations;

Nature of the state elite;

Basis of societal elite;

Inheritance system.

Chinese family businesses, for example, “have sprung from an environment of patrimonial authority, general but not specific mistrust, aloof government, a free entrepreneurial environment, and traditions of equal inheritance” (Redding and Whitley, 1990, p.101). The Korean chaebol, however, have emerged from an environment which “is also patrimonial, less fraught with mistrust, has a similarly Confucian moral-based government, but highly interventionist, a somewhat free entrepreneurial environment, and a modified version of equal inheritance” (ibid.). The environment of large Japanese corporations is characterised by a feudal rather than patrimonial pattern of authority, high trust across the society, aloof but influential government, and an inheritance system based on primogeniture.

The authority approach is clearly related, but not reducible to culture. It also incorporates historical, political and economic elements into the analysis. They point out that different patterns of organisation in different East Asian societies (Japan, South Korea and Taiwan) are associated with different authority patterns in these societies ( Hamilton and Biggart, 1988 ). Japanese firms, for example, enact a communitarian ideal or logic related to a feudal society and the collective traditions and inter-family collaboration of the Tokugawa village. The Korean firms enact a patrimonial principle partly inherited from patterns of authority and subordination prevalent in pre-modern Korea, and to some extent, Japanese colonialism. Chinese family businesses enact a patrilineal logic partly derived from Imperial China, where village cohesion was weak, and from the particle inheritance system, and so on. The economic success of these East Asian countries is because:

“…they have created organisational arrangements and management practices that give them a competitive advantage. Japan, South Korea and Taiwan all pursue business strategies that suit their social arrangements – their cultures, their traditional ways of organising and managing, and their government structures. Not one of these nations attempts to do everything, and none has attempted to imitate the West. Instead, each has focused on industries and processes in which it has a particular social advantage” ( Orru, Biggart & Hamilton, 1997 , pp.103–104).

In summary, an important contribution of this source of literature on economic organisations and economies in East Asia is that it attempts to place the firm in a broad societal context. It takes into consideration various societal factors including cultural values, history and government in explaining the form and the success of economic organisations in different societies. It provides a general approach in studying different forms of businesses which have emerged in different societies at a general macro level.

State-constructed business groups: the Korean chaebol

Social analysis suggests slow change.

While finance and management researchers have examined the proximate causes and effects of the crisis, sociologists and development theorists have looked for social and political explanations for the dynamics of chaebol growth and evolution. Perhaps the most prescient of these analyses is Amsden’s (1989) analysis of the industrial latecomer thesis. In this view, late-industrialising economies are characterised by the creation of the institutions of imitation, especially at the firm level. In contrast, the early-industrialising economies in Britain, Germany and the USA were innovative, and firms diversified based on skill in a very narrow technological and managerial area. The tendency has been to build core expertise and to diversify only into related fields. In late-industrialising economies the driving imperative is to catch up to the technological frontier and to accelerate their progress; frontier firms develop skills associated with imitation. Amsden suggests that in Korea, the core skill developed by domestic firms is the capacity to enter industries repeatedly via project management. Imitators have no proprietary skills and consequently, they tend to diversify opportunistically or at the bidding of government. Because their level of experience in particular industries does not enable them to develop related products or processes, firms in late-industrialising countries tend to diversify widely and this calls the sustainability of their growth into question.

Successful imitation-based strategies create an administrative heritage or path dependencies that ultimately become obstacles to continued growth. Initially, chaebol growth and technology acquisition strategy spread scarce managerial talent to new industries. However, the logic of linking increasingly unrelated businesses becomes more and more difficult to support. With close government ties and operating under a soft budget constraint, chaebol managers were not confronted with a profit-growth trade-off and had little incentive to restructure their operations. Many chaebol are now financially indebted and in possession of a surfeit of largely generic and tangible assets concentrated in mature overcapacity markets. Consequently, their absorptive capacity strategies, as well as new technology initiation strategies are stalled. While chaebol appear to possess significant organisational capabilities, new and promising businesses are starved of both internal and external capital needed for growth. Like other states in the region, Korea has recognised the importance of technological innovation, as distinct from technological imitation, but chaebol continue to experience difficulties in crafting incentives that would propel them into the initiating phase of the product lifecycle.

Whitley (1999) proposes that family enterprise in Korea has proved to be more enduring and less ephemeral than the family-owned business groups of Southeast Asia. The key difference is that Korean business groups were liberally assisted by the state, whereas the family business groups of Southeast Asia were confronted by more rapacious officials and politicians who demanded their cut of profits. Whitley suggests that efforts to sever and unbundle chaebol ownership ties are unlikely to succeed because owners are unlikely to give up control, especially if they anticipate that units will be acquired by rival groups. Moreover, groups have become strong enough to resist the conditional nature of the finance supplied by international institutions. Whitley observes that the owner-controlled chaebol remain quite strongly tied to the Korean economy and the state:

Despite their growing overseas investments and the weakening of the state’s control of the economy … the highly diversified, centralised, and risk-taking nature of the chaebol does not appear to being greatly modified of past decade although some changes in managerial structures in practices have occurred in some of them. ( Whitley, 1999 : 203)

Whitley predicts that Korean enterprises are likely to adopt more favourable labour-management policies in order to remain competitive with Japan but changes in fundamental ownership relationships are unlikely to occur. He suggests that the state will need to undertake more radical actions than has yet been attempted in order to bring about change in the Korean business system.

Granovetter (2005) observes that while many chaebol -affiliated firms failed after the crisis, the stronger groups were able to resist pressures to change. He argues that the oldest groups were the most resilient because they possess the strongest sense of group identity. Granovetter holds that the strong emotional ties that infuse such groups not only lower transactions costs across group firms, but also produce non-economic motivations among participants for the group’s survival and success. Hence, when the government attempts to break up group affiliates, equity and trading linkages may be just the tip of the iceberg. The resilience of chaebol is founded on a stronger basis of identity than simply equity ownership. An array of factors such as managerial career paths, employee commitments, and links with community and political leaders, provide a continuing axis of solidarity. In this respect, the chaebol must be seen as more than just a collection of individual firms but as a more cohesive whole. In response to the crisis, the chaebol remained solid because they wanted to retain their autonomy. Rather than redeploying their capital to more profitable locations, chaebol reallocated capital ‘in such a way as to increase the leverage available from relatively small holdings’, and this strategy is best described as ‘a network survival strategy’ ( Granovetter, 2005 : 446).

Children Learn by Observing and Contributing to Family and Community Endeavors

Rebeca Mejía-Arauz , ... Itzel Aceves-Azuara , in Advances in Child Development and Behavior , 2015

11 Family Social Organization for Children's Development Through Co-Laboration

Our findings show how in this Indigenous American context, the social organization of the family incorporates and provides opportunities for children to participate at home with household work that is for the benefit of the whole family, sometimes even for the extended family and in the family business or parents’ work. This corresponds with the central facet (facet 1) of LOPI, which refers to how community and family include children as contributors to the range of endeavors in which they engage.

The research we have presented here shows how the facets of LOPI are intertwined, supporting the idea that inclusion (facet 1) and collaborative engagement (facet 3) facilitate interested involvement of the learner (facet 2), and in the process, learning involves transformation of participation that includes transforming skills and knowledge, and also learning consideration and responsibility (facet 4), supported by children's contributions as well as by community expectations and the guidance of others (facet 5; Rogoff, 2014 ). The traditional social organization of the family and community in Cherán not only provides children with opportunities for contributing to the wellbeing of the family (facet 1) but is organized in a collaborative way (facet 3)—that is, doing productive work together or what we call co-laborating. This seems to facilitate children's eagerness to contribute (facet 2) by being able to be a contributing part of a group that values, expects, and guides their contributions (facet 5). In this process, the child learns important knowledge and skills for everyday living (facet 4).

Based on our interviews we suggest that the co-laborative nature and organization of interaction in which children are embedded may instill in children the desire to take initiative in contributing to family and community activity (see also Coppens & Alcalá, 2015 ) while at the same time teaching them to be considerate and care for others. In communities where children are embedded in family and community activity, children co-laborate by working alongside more experienced others contributing in small ways to accomplish complex tasks. The social nature of the interaction makes it markedly different from cleaning one's own room by oneself without any form of social interaction or feeling of contributing to a joint endeavor. The difference in the social context, practices, and ideas may help explain why in some communities children contribute in sophisticated and mature ways while in other communities parents struggle to get children to pick up their socks.

The contrasts we found among the three backgrounds suggest that it makes a difference when parents ask children to engage in joint activity—co-laborating—in contrast to asking them to perform a solitary chore. When children co-laborate with other members of the family without being compelled to do so, they seem to develop initiative that we and Rogoff and other colleagues call pitching in, offering their help spontaneously when it is needed.

The community goals of learning not only skills and knowledge but also important social and emotional aspects of child development as a member of the community can be seen in how the mothers included consideration for others and recognition of others’ efforts in their emphasis on the importance of learning to work. The children for their part seemed to understand the important cultural values inherent in this learning and showed pride in their efforts when others recognized their contributions and considerateness.

In contrast, when parents assign their child to contribute to family household chores as an individual or solitary activity, as was the case in most of the cosmopolitan families we interviewed from Guadalajara, children do not seem to be eager to participate or learn. This is underscored by the fact that parents treat their child's participation more as an obligation than as contribution or help, keeping their children from experiencing their contributions and participation as integrated in the family and community.

Family and community forms of social organization that promote learning to collaborate with initiative as well as consideration and care for others have important social implications beyond the practical benefit for the family and the learning and development of skills for the child or persons involved in work. Through participation, children can learn values of respect, reciprocity, and commitment. In this way, household work can be organized not as solitary, compulsory assigned chores but as opportunity for contribution and for important social learning.

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How three circles changed the way we understand family business.

Professor John A. Davis

John A. Davis is a globally recognized pioneer and authority on family enterprise, family wealth, and the family office. He is a researcher, educator, author, architect of the field’s most impactful conceptual frameworks, and advisor to leading families around the world. He leads the family enterprise programs at MIT Sloan. To follow his writing and speaking, visit johndavis.com and twitter @ProfJohnDavis .

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Family Businesses

By Entrepreneur Staff

Family Businesses Definition:

A business actively owned and/or managed by more than one member of the same family

If you own a family business, you probably worry even more than the average entrepreneur about ensuring that your company not only survives, but also thrives to nurture the next generation. Several years ago, researchers David Sirmon and Michael Hitt examined the strategies behind successful family businesses. They found that success is tied directly to how well a company manages the five unique resources every family business possesses:

1. Human capital. The first resource is the family's human capital, or "inner circle." When the skill sets of different family members are coordinated as a complementary cache of knowledge, with a clear division of labor, the likelihood of success improves significantly.

2. Social capital. The family members bring valuable social capital to the business in the form of networking and other external relationships that complement the insiders' skill sets.

3. Patient financial capital. The family firm typically has patient financial capital in the form of both equity and debt financing from family members. The family relationship between the investors and the managers reduces the threat of liquidation.

4. Survivability capital. The family company must manage its survivability capital-family members' willingness to provide free labor or emergency loans so the venture doesn't fail.

5. Lower costs of governance. The family business must manage its ability to hold down the costs of governance. In nonfamily firms, these include costs for things such as special accounting systems, security systems, policy manuals, legal documents and other mechanisms to reduce theft and monitor employees' work habits. The family firm can minimize or eliminate these costs because employees and managers are related and trust each other.

Clearly delineating these unique family resources and leveraging them into a well-coordinated management strategy greatly improves your business's chances of success compared to nonfamily-owned companies.

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