The interdependency between a family company's name and a family name

A company's name often personifies the company. In the case of family companies, the name is mainly connected with that of the owning family. This paper aims to identify and substantiate the context of the perception of any possible risks from the association of a family name with that of a family company during the generational exchange with the participation of several generations in the family company's management. The hypotheses have been verified based on the evaluation of data acquired from a sample of 245 respondents from the Czech Republic. The research period is 2017-2019. The qualitative research is based on round discussion tables with family business owners. The data has been processed using correlation and regression analysis. The authors have shown that owners consider the association of the family name with that of a family company to be a potential risk. Any negative regard for the family company and the family could lead to losing the family's good name and the company and losing customers and employees. Moreover, it could damage the process of intergenerational transition. The connection between the intensity of the risk perception and the generational exchange process with the participation of several members in the management of a family company has been statistically demonstrated. The degree of perception of the risk is high in family companies where the generational exchange is still ongoing. The exclusion of the variable of the connection of a family company name with the owning family due to collinearity suggests a possibility for a different type of research that would demonstrate the statistical significance. The unique article nature lies in the fact that it involves research into the current, real process of generational exchange taking place in Czech family companies with mainly two generations and up to three generations in the family company management.

Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges of European Design Policy to Enable Innovation. The Case of Designscapes Project

Design policy for innovation and prosperity has been acknowledged and adopted globally. Existing literature on design policy usually adopts a top-down perspective to analyse the components of the design innovation system and ignores the practical needs of practitioners. Our study aims to explore potential opportunities and challenges of design policies for design-enabled innovation from a bottom-up perspective. We firstly discussed the enabling role of design in the context of design as input, output and process of innovation with emphasis on design-enabled innovation conception; then European design policies are reviewed in terms of characteristics, priorities and strategies at EU, national and regional levels. Based on multiple case studies on the SWOT (i.e., Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis of 50 European design innovation initiatives, we summarised eight dimensions of SWOT factors—organisation, production, performance, knowledge, environment, market, technology and institution—so as to identify main strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that practitioners are facing, and discussed common and specific factors that might influence the identification of SWOT forces by taking into account country and sector factors. We concluded that European design policy is located at a point of intergenerational transition from awareness raising to capacity building, which calls for more coordinated policies to tackle current opportunities and challenges.

Imprese e generazioni

This article aims to offer a review of the possibilities offered by a ‘narrative’ approach to examine the succession in businesses through some meaningful examples. In the first part, the focus is on a strictly literary representation, i.d. the novel Il padrone by Goffredo Parise (1965), which is still relevant to date for its extraordinary attention (and artistic outcome) on dynamics in a family business context. In this novel the notion of ‘personal myth’ fulfils a particular role, with all its consequences for the business. In the second part, it is shown an obviously incomplete series of case-studies in which economists use literary techniques and tools to represent and/or analyse business intergenerational transition, especially in family business. In the third part, one of these studies – focused on the Berger family case – is examined more deeply to understand its theoretic choices and its scientific accomplishments, in order to wish for a real multidisciplinary approach to this topic, involving literary critics, theorists and linguists.

Cultural Analysis of Half-Century Demographic Swings of Iran: The Place of Popular Culture

Giving specific reference to the place of popular culture, this paper examines the patterns and determinants associated with population dynamics from socio-cultural perspectives. The discussion is based on the analysis of observations in a country that has experienced substantial changes in family formation resulting in one of the world's most spectacular falls in women's birth rate ever experienced in human history: Iran. Facing fundamental historical experiences and substantial socio-cultural changes over the past decades, the context of this study acts as a unique ‘social laboratory’ to survey the intergenerational comparisons. The results of this analysis show substantial intergenerational transition, which provide new evidence to support Sauvey's (1978) and Weeks's (1994) socio-demographic investigations in some other developing countries.

Relato de vida y análisis de la obra de un artista visual, hijo de ex presidiario político de la dictadura cívico-militar chilena

RELATO DE VIDA Y ANÁLISIS DE LA OBRA DE UN ARTISTA VISUAL, HIJO DE Ex PRESIDIARIO POLíTICO DE LA DICTADURA CíVICO-MILITAR CHILENARESUMEN El planteamiento del presente trabajo mostrará, a través de un diseño exploratorio-comprensivo de caso único, la influencia de la transmisión intergeneracional de memorias asociadas a la violencia política de la dictadura cívico-militar en la obra de un artista de la generación posdictatorial chilena. Mario Navarro, destacado artista visual chileno, hijo de un detenido político en la dictadura, fue el autor de este estudio. Se usó el relato de vida como técnica de producción de datos e imágenes de las obras entregadas por el artista, y se realizó un análisis narrativo de estos y observación formal de las obras visuales. Los principales resultados del estudio indican que parte de la elección de vida profesional y algunos de los resultados de obras visuales del artista contienen influencia intergeneracional indirecta de la experiencia de detención política del padre.PALABRAS CLAVEArte, memoria, transmisión y trauma psicosocial.ACCOUNT OF LIFE AND ANALYSIS OF A VISUAL ARTIST WORK, SON OF A POLITICAL Ex-CONVICT AT CHILEAN CIVIC-MILITARY DICTATORSHIP ABSTRACTThe artwork of Mario Navarro, who is a recognized postdictatorship Chilean visual artist and whose father was a political prisoner at the civic-military dictatorship, is presented in this study. Through a comprehensive exploratory unique case, this piece of work shows the influence of intergenerational transition of memories associated with political violence at the Chilean civicmilitary dictatorship. A life account and art creations made by the artist were used as data production technique, moreover a narrative analysis of these two items and formal observation of the visual pieces of work were also taken into consideration. The main results of the research show that part of the professional life choice and some of the artist’s visual works are considerably influenced by an indirect intergenerational political detention experience the artist’s father had to face.KEY WORDSArts, memory, transmission, and psychological trauma.ÑUGPAMANDA KAUSAIKUNA SUG RUNPA AMBRA KAASKA KAUI RUNA KASKA DICTARUDA KAADUR CHILEMANDAMAILLALLACHISKAKaipi kawachiku imasami kallariskakuna kachingapa, kausai ñugpamanda chasa mailla mailla kallaruku ruraikuna kaachispa allillakuna, chasallata jirú kauai kuna sug runa Mario Navarro suti, rigsiska kawadur Chilepe kausag, pai kami sug runaa wambra llapa iacha paimanda parlaska kawachispa uiachispa neku imasami kaska paipa taita chasallata munaku kawachinga.

Intergenerational Transition in a Small Family Business

Family businesses constitute the key infrastructure of wealth creation across the globe. One of the most important human-resource challenges they face is intergenerational transition, an issue that has received considerable attention from scholars in various countries. Despite this great interest, academics are still attempting to understand the phenomenon and provide effective managerial guidance on how family businesses can make it to the second generation. This chapter seeks to contribute to family business research by offering a more nuanced understanding of intergenerational transition that builds on a conceptualization of the phenomenon as a process rather than the prevailing view of it as an instantaneous event. In order to capture the processual nature of intergenerational transition, evidence is presented from a field study carried out in a small Italian family business that was the arena of three different intergenerational transitions taking place at different time periods. The evidence gathered suggests that the process is shaped by interaction of the different parties involved, who renegotiate their roles as it unfolds, with various factors playing a part.