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Family Enterprises

Family Enterprises

Mr Richard L Narva

(2015)

Abstract

Recognition of the power and importance of businesses controlled by family shareholder groups has grown steadily over the past 30 years. Apologies for working in the family business in the 1980s and 1990s have been replaced by public pride on the parts of leaders of family controlled firms for their enduring growth under family control and contributions to all stakeholders in the enterprise. What has been missing from the business literature is a guide to the processes, structures and interventions that assist family-controlled enterprises to sustain continuity of growth, family control and family harmony. This book compiles the wisdom of experienced leaders of family growth companies and those who advise them, focusing on what works to sustain business success without sacrificing family relationships or control. Each of the contributors is grounded in deep management or professional expertise guiding or advising family-controlled enterprises. And each chapter contains clear, practical advice on how to address issues that challenge family firm leaders and their advisers on a regular basis. This new book demonstrates to members of family shareholder control groups, their non-family executives and members of the boards of directors, as well as lawyers and other long-term advisers, that there are ways to address the emotionally powerful issues and challenges that are specific to family controlled enterprises. Many of these proven solutions to the special requirements of leading family firms have broad global applications, assisting them to grow, without sacrificing their culture or strategy.
Richard Narva is the gold standard when it comes to insights and advice on the world of family business! Steve Forbes Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Front Cover 1
Title 2
Copyright 3
Table of contents 4
Preface Richard L Narva Narva & Company 8
Part I. Understanding the power and constraints of family shareholder control groups 12
Entrepreneurship in family firms: re-examining the fascination with success, failure and succession Jennifer Halyk Communications consultant 12
Entrepreneurial family businesses and family entrepreneurs: the unsung heroes of entrepreneurial effort Matt Allen Babson College 20
The entrepreneurial family revisited Ramona Kay Zachary Baruch College, The City University of New York 28
Working with siblings and how to survive them Lucio E Dana Creativity in Business Pty Ltd, trading as Family Business Dynamics Kosmas X Smyrnios RMIT University Australia 40
Thriving once thefounder has gone Doug Rauch Conscious Capitalism 58
The power of family Shari Wyner Narva Narva & Company 68
Consulting with a clinician Adam Narva Psychologist 76
Part II. Building human capital to lead family controlled enterprises 86
Characteristics of centennial family companies Ernesto J Poza Thunderbird School of Global Management 86
Understanding paternalistic leadership of family enterprisesDorothy Nebel de Mello Nebel&Mello Consultores Associados and BI International 102
Effective legal representation of family firm clients John L Talvacchia Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC 116
This is not your father’s HR department Joshua A Narva Sonos Inc 128
Challenges facing the executive coach in a family firm Sunny Stout-Rostron Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital 132
Part III. Designing family controlled organisation for growth 150
A practitioner’s guide to transferring a family business from one generation to the next Frederic J Marx Hemenway & Barnes LLP 150
Effective family governance in entrepreneurial families Kathrin Phelan Midgley Phelan Family Enterprises, LLC 160
Building for success: better governance today begets a brighter tomorrow Denis Thomas USALCO, LLC 168
One family business’s governance journey Daniel B Hatzenbuehler E Ritter & Co 178
The non-executive chair’s role in maintaining and strengthening the cultureof the enterprise Gareth M Ackerman Pick n Pay Stores Limited 190
The role of independent directors in family controlled listed enterprises Richard L NarvaNarva & Company 206
Part IV. Financing growth and change in family controlled enterprises 220
Shareholders’ agreements for family-controlled businesses: managing expectations and covering all bases Dara C Bachman Timothy Malloy Michael L Mixell Barley Snyder, LLP 220
How the best family business owners optimise their financial adviser relationship David C Linton Bigelow LLC 238
Challenges faced by family\rcontrolled companies in\rgrowing by acquisition\rSimon Mordant\rLuminis Partners affiliated with Evercore 248
How to manage the successful disposition of a family firm Charles S Fradin Former family business owner and corporate director 256
Family enterprises and their real estate Janet B Fierman Sheehan, Phinney, Bass + Green, PA 266
Part V 284
Afterword Richard L Narva Narva & Company 284
About the authors 286