scholarly journals MERCHANTS AND NOBLES LUGININS: THREE GENERATIONS OF THE ZLATOUST FACTORIES OWNERS OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-98
Author(s):  
Elena S. Bochkareva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
Factory Owner ◽  
Constant Control ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Life Circumstances ◽  
And Control

The article presents the history of the ownership of Zlatoust mining plants by three generations of the Luginin family. It shows direct dependence of the dynamics of ownership and inheritance of plants on the vicissitudes of the family history. It is established that the founder of the Zlatoust factory farm, L. I. Luginin, relied in his business activities on the help of his son Maxim, who took over the management and control of a new part of the family business — the Ural factories in 1769. M. L. Luginin died in the middle of 1770s and L. I. Luginin was left without an assistant and a trained heir. The grandchildren of the factory owner, due to the life circumstances associated with their new noble status, character traits and age, failed to adopt the grandfather’s experience and did not become an equivalent replacement for their father. After the death of the founder, during the period of guardianship management of the factories, the middle grandson, Larion Maksimovich, showed interest in the factories, but he also died before he had been in the factories for two years. The transfer of ownership of the district to the most unworthy of the heirs, I. M. Luginin, eventually led to the exit of the estate from the possession of the family. Zlatoust factories, located far from the rest of the family’s possessions, required constant control of the owner, his participation in the management. In this case, the succession should have been manifested in the active participation of the heirs in the management of the district, personal control over the execution of orders. It is concluded that the succession of generations of the family is of great importance in the early stages of the organization of the business, when the personal control of the owner is a significant factor in the preservation of the business in the hands of the family.

scholarly journals ‘... Her Imperial Majesty Deigned to Declare Herself’: V. N. Tatishchev’s Journal-Book for 1734

2018 ◽  
pp. 882-891
Author(s):  
Mikhail A. Kiselev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
The State ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
State Archive ◽  
The Urals ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Important State

This is the first publication of the journal-book kept by famous Russian statesman and historian Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev from February 10 to April 2, 1734, after his appointment director of the Urals state-owned metallurgical plants. This document allows to clarify the circumstances of V. N Tatishchev's appointment to the Urals, including its date. According to the document, it was made on February 10 by oral order of the Empress. Immediately afterwards Vasily Nikitich plunged into planning his trip assisted by cabinet-ministers A. I. Osterman, A. M. Cherkassky, and president of the Commerce-Collegium P. P. Shafirov. The journal-book allows to reconstruct the flow of communication within the bureaucratic elite in 1730s. It also shows that internal documentation (minutes and registers) of the Cabinet of Ministers does not fully reflect its activities. It indicates that the Empress took a most active part and interest in Tatishchev’s appointment and his sending away; she thus sought to keep under her personal control all most important state affairs, including management of metallurgical plants. The document is of interest for studying history of Russian culture of the 18th century, as it contains some information about translator and writer K. A. Kondratovich and historian P. N. Krekshin. It intimates that Kondratovich was exiled to the Urals with Tatishchev by oral order from Anna Ioannovna. To this, there is no other documentary evidence, and therefore, Kondratovich attempted to mystify the circumstances of his exile to the Urals and to bury the fact in oblivion. The document is stored in the State Archive of the Sverdlovsk Region, Ekaterinburg.

scholarly journals Stanley Melbourne Bruce - Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, 1883-1967

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 57-62
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Preparatory School ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of

The public life of Stanley Melbourne Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia, a Viscount of the United Kingdom, a Fellow of the Royal Society, was one of the most paradoxical in the history of his native country. Bruce was born in Melbourne on 15 April 1883, of a well-to-do mercantile family. 1893 saw the collapse of a great land boom, the failure of some banks and an acute general depression. The family business, Paterson, Laing and Bruce, was in difficulties. Stanley Bruce’s father sold his mansion in the fashionable suburb of Toorak. Stanley himself had to leave his preparatory school—the fees were not available. His father, who appears to have been a singularly determined man, then proceeded to restore the fortunes of the business. In 1896 the young Stanley went to the well-known Melbourne Grammar School, where he was a most successful all-round student. It has been given to few boys at a great school to be not only captain of football, of cricket, of athletics, and of rowing, but also Senior Prefect (i.e. Captain) of the School.

Heidelberg

2018 ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Robert E. Lerner
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Main Field ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Town ◽  
The University

This chapter details events following Ernst Kantorowicz's arrival in Heidelberg in late September 1919. On October 3, he had matriculated at the university. As a teenager he had visited the picturesque university town on the Neckar where his sister Soscha was one of a group of committed young intellectuals: Friedrich Gundolf, Arthur Salz, Fine Sobotka, and Erich Kahler. Kantorowicz's main field of studies remained economics. Evidently he was still preparing for a career in the family business, or at least holding that out as an option. However, more indicative of his real interests were his “special subjects”: history of economics, geography, and Arabic philology.

Interview with Dr. William O’Hara

2003 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul I. Karofsky
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Executive Director ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Family Enterprise ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Research

Dr. William O’Hara, the executive director of Bryant College’s Institute for Family Enterprise (IFE), answers questions dealing with many aspects of his life. By founding the IFE and continually adapting it to the condition of the marketplace, O’Hara maintains a commitment to expanding the knowledge of the family business community. O’Hara’s new research into the history of family businesses hints at an underlying framework that is still applicable today. He spoke with Paul I. Karofsky, executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for Family Business.

Adaptation, Survival, and Growth of the Family Business: An Integrated Systems Perspective

1988 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Davis ◽  
Douglas Stern
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Family System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Integrated Systems ◽  
Corporate Development ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Professional Management ◽  
The Family ◽  
Survival And Growth ◽  
And Control

Family ownership and control are still significant in the majority of business enterprises in the United States. A high percentage of these companies face special problems particularly related to corporate development and transition from an entrepreneurial to a professional management structure. In this paper, we describe a set of processes and mechanisms that define and regulate the interaction between the business and family system.

Increased Erythrocyte Lithium-Sodium Countertransport in Essential Hypertension: Its Relationship to Family History of Hypertension

1981 ◽  
Vol 61 (s7) ◽  
pp. 13s-15s ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Canali ◽  
L. Borghi ◽  
E. Sani ◽  
A. Curti ◽  
A. Montanari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Essential Hypertension ◽  
Family History ◽  
High Blood Pressure ◽  
Degree Relative ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Family History Of Hypertension ◽  
And Control

1. Erythrocyte lithium—sodium counter-transport was measured in 46 normotensive healthy controls without family history of hypertension, 15 subjects with essential hypertension, but without evidence of family history of high blood pressure, and 43 subjects with essential hypertension and at least one hypertensive first-degree relative. 2. Mean values (mmol h−1 l−1 of erythrocytes) were 0.248 ± 0.092 in controls, 0.258 ± 0.087 in hypertensive subjects without family history (not significant vs controls), 0.360 ± 0.115 in hypertensive subjects with family history of hypertension (P < 0.001 vs controls), 0.334 ± 0.117 in all hypertensive subjects, both with and without family history (P < 0.001 vs controls). 3. Our data confirm the finding of an increased erythrocyte lithium-sodium counter-transport, but with a significant overlap between essential hypertension and control values. Lithium-sodium countertransport is higher only in hypertensive subjects with at least one hypertensive first-degree relative. 4. We suggest that the increase of lithium-sodium countertransport in erythrocytes is not a consistent marker of essential hypertension. It seems to be associated with the family prevalence and/or the hereditability of hypertension, rather than with high blood pressure per se.

scholarly journals UKRAINIAN O'CONNORS: THE FAMILY OF IRISH ANCESTRY IN THE CULTURAL LIFE OF THE 19TH CENTURY UKRAINE

2017 ◽  
pp. 15-18
Author(s):  
G. Kazakevych
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Late 18Th Century ◽  
The Family ◽  
Political Activist ◽  
National Opera ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article is devoted to the O'Connor family, which played a noticeable role in the Ukrainian history of the 19 – early 20th centuries. A founder of the family Alexander O'Connor leaved Ireland in the late 18th century. The author assumes that he was a military man who had to emigrate from Ireland shortly after the Irish rebellion of 1798. After some years in France, where he had changed his surname to de Connor, he and his elder son Victor arrived in Russia where Alexander Ivanovich De-Konnor joined the army. As a cavalry regiment commander, colonel De-Konnor took part in the Napoleonic wars. He married a noble Ukrainian woman Anastasia Storozhenko and settled down in her estate in the Poltava region of Ukraine. His three sons (Victor, Alexander and Valerian) had served as army commanders and then settled in Chernihiv, Poltava and Kharkiv regions respectively. Among their descendants the most notable were two daughters of Alexander De-Konnor jr – Olga and Valeria as well as Valerian De-Konnor jr. Olga De-Konnor married a famous Ukrainian composer and public figure Mykola Lysenko. As a professional opera singer, she stood at the origins of the Ukrainian national opera. Her younger sister Valeria was a Ukrainian writer, publicist and political activist who joined the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1917. Valerian De-Konnor jr. is well known for his research works and translations in the field of cynology.

scholarly journals „Osobliwie muszę tu wyznać zrządzenie Boskie nad tobą Synu mój kochany, iż twoja najlepiej cię kochająca Matka, uniesiona często słabością rozumu swojego, biła cię i źle ci życzyła”. Choroba psychiczna w rodzinie w drugiej połowie XVIII wieku na przykładzie dzieciństwa Stanisława Mikołaja Tretera

2019 ◽  
pp. 103-112
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Ewa Kowalczyk
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Central State ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
History Of ◽  
Professional Care ◽  
The One

Stanisław Mikołaj, son of Agnieszka, nee Izbicki, and Stanisław Treter, the king’s chamberlain, was born on 19th November 1776. When he was seven years old it turned out that his mother was mentally ill, most probably suffering from schizophrenia. In the 18th century mental and nervous disorders were very rare, and foreigners visiting Poland even thought they were characteristic of Poles. Certainly, mental disease in a family does not only affect the one who actually suffers from it, it has an impact on each family member and somehow everyone is involved. Agnieszka’s psychosis started with aggressive behaviour towards her family, and especially her son. She would destroy things which either belonged to him or were in some way related to him, she would scream at him, physically and mentally harass him. His father would usually buy the things the boy needed most, such as underwear, clothes and shoes, in well-kept secret. Agnieszka categorically opposed this and even “became stubborn and restless which influenced the atmosphere in this home”. Because of his mother’s disease and its influence on the atmosphere in the family, the boy often felt anxiety and fear, and sometimes even annoyance and despair. In November 1786 Stanisław Treter decided that it would be better if his wife stayed in Warsaw for a while. The atmosphere at home was becoming worse and worse, and their ten-year-old son required systematic and extensive education, while Agnieszka herself needed “professional” care. In the 18th century people who suffered from mental diseases would usually live with their families and be provided with good care and a kind of particular respect, unless they were dangerous to others. However, Agnieszka was completely unpredictable. Her irrepressible aggression was understood by her son as a lack of love and acceptance. He often felt lost and very lonely. His mother’s mental disease did not create supportive conditions for the development of the child’s emotions and mentality. Certainly, like any other child he loved his “Mummy” very much, so parting with her was a very difficult experience for the boy. Disharmony in the Treter family, which was the consequence of Agnieszka’s disease, developed in Stanisław Mikołaj patterns of instability, hostility and neglect. Thus it is not surprising that he became oversensitive, egoistic, combative and aggressive. We learn about Stanisław Mikołaj Treter’s difficult childhood from his father’s notes. In 1785 he decided to write a history of his son’s life and education, and it took him four years to write in 13 letters which are now kept in the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lvov.

Limits to psychological ownership in the family business

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wouter Broekaert ◽  
Bart Henssen ◽  
Johan Lambrecht ◽  
Koenraad Debackere ◽  
Petra Andries
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Psychological Ownership ◽  
Operational Control ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Additional Insight ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Control

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the sense of control, psychological ownership and motivation of both family owners and non-family managers in family firms are interrelated. This paper analyzes the limits set by family owners when delegating control to their non-family managers and the resulting potential for conflict and demotivation of the non-family managers. Design/methodology/approach Building on the existing literature, first, an overview of the literature on psychological ownership and control is presented. Second, the paper analyzes the insights gained from interviews with 15 family owners and non-family managers in five family firms. Findings This study finds that motivating non-family managers is not merely a matter of promoting a sense of psychological ownership throughout the company. A strong sense of psychological ownership may facilitate but also hinder the cooperation between family and non-family. Family owners are often only willing to delegate operational control, while non-family managers also feel entitled to participate in strategic decision making. This leads to the proposition that non-family managers’ psychological ownership in family firms’ conflicts with family owners’ desire to maintain control. Originality/value This study answers the calls to seek additional insight in how non-family managers function within family firms. By shedding light on the complex relationship between control, psychological ownership and motivation in family firms, the study responds to the calls for more empirical validation of the psychological ownership framework and for more research into the potential negative effects of psychological ownership in the family business.

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