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Developing policies to guide decision making can help the family business avoid serious problems. The authors provide a step-by-step process for engaging family members in developing policies which cover issues such as: dealing with conflicts of interest; retirement timing; distribution of profits; loan programs; compensation and succession.
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'Developing Family Business Policies: Your Guide to the Future is a must-read for any business owning family that is trying to sort through the challenges of family business continuity. It gave us information that helped us select and construct policies that fit our speicific family business needs.' - Arthur R. Velasquez, President & CEO, Azteca Foods, Inc., Chicago, IL
'We are a family business that has grown and is maturing by learning and putting to use the principles in Family Business Policies: Your Guide to the Future.' - Jack and Dolores Cakebread, Cakebread Cellars, Napa Valley/Rutherford, CA
'Family Business Policies: Your Guide to the Future gives families a clear road map for creating business policies. It raises all the right questions. I will recommend it to our family and professional advisory clients alike.' - Judy Rudnick, Family Office Exchange, Oak Park, IL
About the authors
CRAIG E. ARONOFF Co-founder, Principal, and Chairman of the Board of The Family Business Consulting Group, Inc., the founder of the Cox Family Enterprise Center and current Professor Emeritus at Kennesaw State University, USA. He invented and implemented the membership-based, professional-service-provider sponsored Family Business Forum, which has served as a model of family business education for universities world-wide.
JOSEPH H. ASTRACHAN Principal in the Family Business Consulting Group, Inc., Wachovia Eminent Scholar Chair of Family Business, Professor of Learning and Professional Development, and Director of the Cox Family Enterprise Center at the Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University, USA. In addition he is Distinguished Research Chair of Family Business at Loyola University Chicago's Business School, USA.
JOHN L. WARD Co-founder of the Family Business Consulting Group Inc. He is Clinical Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, USA and teaches strategic management, business leadership and family enterprise continuity.
JOSEPH H. ASTRACHAN Principal in the Family Business Consulting Group, Inc., Wachovia Eminent Scholar Chair of Family Business, Professor of Learning and Professional Development, and Director of the Cox Family Enterprise Center at the Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University, USA. In addition he is Distinguished Research Chair of Family Business at Loyola University Chicago's Business School, USA.
JOHN L. WARD Co-founder of the Family Business Consulting Group Inc. He is Clinical Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, USA and teaches strategic management, business leadership and family enterprise continuity.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Developing Family Business Policies
Book Subtitle: Your Guide to the Future
Authors: Craig E. Aronoff, Joseph H. Astrachan, John L. Ward
Series Title: A Family Business Publication
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230115972
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-11109-7Published: 11 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11597-2Published: 30 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2947-3985
Series E-ISSN: 2947-3993
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 104
Topics: Management, Organization, Small Business, Business Strategy/Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Family Business