Bernardo Cennini and His Family Enterprise, 1471–1472

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-18
Keyword(s):  
Family Enterprise

Innovationsmotor Medientechnik – Von der Schreibmaschine zur «Mittleren Datentechnik» bei der Siemag Feinmechanische Werke (1950 bis 1969)

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-117
Author(s):  
Christian Henrich-Franke
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Adverse Conditions ◽  
Family Enterprise ◽  
The Us ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 1960S

Abstract The second half of the 20th century is commonly considered to be a time in which German companies lost their innovative strength, while promising new technologies presented an enormous potential for innovation in the US. The fact that German companies were quite successful in the production of medium data technology and had considerable influence on the development of electronic data processing was neglected by business and media historians alike until now. The article analyses the Siemag Feinmechanische Werke (Eiserfeld) as one of the most important producers of the predecessors to said medium data technologies in the 1950s and 1960s. Two transformation processes regarding the media – from mechanic to semiconductor and from semiconductor to all-electronic technology – are highlighted in particular. It poses the question of how and why a middling family enterprise such as Siemag was able to rise to being the leading provider for medium data processing office computers despite lacking expertise in the field of electrical engineering while also facing difficult location conditions. The article shows that Siemag successfully turned from its roots in heavy industry towards the production of innovative high technology devices. This development stems from the company’s strategic decisions. As long as their products were not mass-produced, a medium-sized family business like Siemag could hold its own on the market through clever decision-making which relied on flexible specialization, targeted license and patent cooperation as well as innovative products, even in the face of adverse conditions. Only in the second half of the 1960s, as profit margins dropped due to increasing sales figures and office machines had finally transformed into office computers, Siemag was forced to enter cooperation with Philips in order to broaden its spectrum and merge the production site in Eiserfeld into a larger business complex.

scholarly journals Determinants of building competitive positions of family enterprises – case study

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-121
Author(s):  
Anna Lemańska-Majdzik ◽  
Monika Sipa
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Competitive Position ◽  
Family Enterprise ◽  
Family Enterprises ◽  
Production Company

Abstract The paper presents theoretical and practical aspects of the issue of a family enterprise and building a competitive advantage. The aim of the paper was to attempt to determine the elements building a competitive position of an enterprise and to identify the factors that have contributed to the success, with a case study of a family production company.

scholarly journals Study on Employee Silence Behavior: An analysis on Pakistani Family Enterprise

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Imran Ahmed Shah ◽  
Junaid Ahmed Solangi ◽  
Aamir Ali Lashari ◽  
Abdul Ghaffar Bhatti ◽  
Saaherah Alkiany ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pakistani Family ◽  
Family Enterprise ◽  
Employee Silence

scholarly journals Rethinking entrepreneurship and family business research in Honduras: a closer look in times of crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-38
Author(s):  
Allan Discua
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Business Research ◽  
Family Enterprise ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Family Enterprises ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Relevant Context ◽  
Is Value

Introduction: Around the world, entrepreneurial activity is influenced by family. The influence of family in the creation, management, development and continuity of small, medium and large size enterprises is unequivocal. In this revision article, I argue for the relevance of further research in Honduras around entrepreneurship and the family enterprise. Methods and Discussion: As families in business are vital to the social and economic fabric of communities around the world there is value in understanding the special nature of enterprises that operate as family businesses. Honduras is a relevant context of study as research on family enterprises has been underrepresented and several challenges and fortuitous events affect the emergence and continuity of family enterprises. Conclusion: To advance understanding, this revision article brings together a collection of themes that provide a nuanced overview of key discussions and opportunities for further research.

scholarly journals Synergy of Family Business and Social Entrepreneurship: Problems of Law, Economics and Technology Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 01016
Author(s):  
Anatoly N. Levushkin ◽  
Yana S. Grishina ◽  
Olga G. Bartkova ◽  
Tatyana V. Savina
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Family Enterprise ◽  
General Scientific

During the economic instability, crisis processes in economic relations, and the growing prospects of a new “step” of the global economic crisis, theoretical and applied research in the field of legal support for strengthening and supporting economic development, small and medium-sized businesses, and digital technologies in the Russian Federation plays a great role. The purpose of the study: A legal study of the current legislation in order to apply the concept of synergy of family business and social entrepreneurship for the effective implementation of economic processes and solving technological problems, identify the problems of family business development in the new economic realities and propose some ways to solve them at the legislative level. The object of the study is a set of economic, entrepreneurial, civil-legal relations that arise in the implementation of family business and social entrepreneurship in modern economic realities based on new technologies. Methods: General scientific and private scientific methods of scientific cognition were used in the study: systematic, historical, logical, comparative-legal, formal-legal, and others. Novelty: It is proved that social entrepreneurship and family business should be a system-forming link in economic relations, linking the state with small and medium-sized businesses. The introduction of such form of business (social and family entrepreneurship) should eliminate many economic problems and gaps in the legal regulation of issues that arise while conducting economic activities by family members. The necessity of separating social entrepreneurship and family business into a separate economic and legal category is justified, and the expediency of consolidating the concept of social entrepreneurship and family enterprise at the federal level is proved.

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