Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive

Based on a review of 217 refereed articles on family business studies, the literature is organized according to its focus on individual, interpersonal or group, organizational, and societal levels of analyses. An assessment of the status of our current understanding at each level is provided and directions for future research are suggested. A discussion of definitional issues, bases of distinctiveness, and family firm performance is used to help understand the domain or scope of the field. Methodological issues and strategies aimed to enhance the pace at which the field achieves a distinctive legitimate place in organizational studies are presented.

An Overview of the Field of Family Business Studies: Current Status and Directions for the Future

History is replete with examples of spectacular ascents of family businesses. Yet there are also numerous accounts of family businesses brought down by bitter feuds among family members, disappointed expectations between generations, and tragic sagas of later generations unable to manage their wealth. A large fraction of businesses throughout the world are organized around families. Why are family firms so prevalent? What are the implications of family control for the governance, financing and overall performance of these businesses?

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The Role of Family in Family Firms

A growing body of empirical work measuring different types of cultural traits has shown that culture matters for a variety of economic outcomes. This paper focuses on one specific aspect of the relevance of culture: its relationship to institutions. We review work with a theoretical, empirical, and historical bent to assess the presence of a two-way causal effect between culture and institutions. ( JEL D02, D72, I32, J12, Z13)

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/114123/1/dp9246.pdf

Culture and Institutions

http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Allen2001.pdf

The Great Divergence in European Wages and Prices from the Middle Ages to the First World War

Preface Plates Text-figures Tables Introduction Abbreviations Part I. The Farming Regions of England Joan Thirsk Part II. The Farming Regions of Wales Frank Emery Part III. Farming techniques Joan Thirsk Part IV. Enclosing and Engrossing Joan Thirsk Part V. Landlords in England: 1. The crown Gordon Batho 2. Noblemen, gentlemen, and yeomen Gordon Batho 3. The church Joyce Youings Part VI. Landlords in Wales: 1. The nobility and gentry T. Jones Pierce 2. The church Glanmor Williams Part VII. Farm Labourers Alan Everitt Part VIII. The Marketing of Agricultural Produce Alan Everitt Part IX. Agricultural Prices, Farm Profits, and Rents Peter Bowden Part X. Rural Housing in England M. W. Barley Part XI. Rural Housing in Wales Peter Smith Select bibliography Index.

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The Agrarian History of England and Wales

The constructive phase of projects 1540-1580 the scandalous phase, part I 1580-1601 the scandalous phase, part II 1601-1624 the quality of goods and the quality of clients projects and political economy. Appendices: 1 - foreign wares imported into London in 1559 and 1564-1565 2 - miscellaneous goods exported from London, Michaelmas 1662 to Michaelmas 1663.

Economic Policy and Projects: The Development of a Consumer Society in Early Modern England

Introduction Jack Goody 1. Inheritance, property and women: some comparative considerations Jack Goody 2. Family structures and inheritance customs in sixteenth century France Emmanuel Le Roy Laudrie 3. Inheritance, land tenure and peasant family structure: a German regional comparison Lutz K. Berkner 4. Aspects of kinship behaviours and property in rural Western Europe before 1800 David Sabean 5. Peasant inheritance customs in the Midlands, 1280-1700 Cicley Howell 6. Peasant inheritance customs and land distribution in Cambridgeshire from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries Margaret Spufford 7. The European debate on customs of inheritance, 1500-1700 Jan Thirsk 8. Patterns of inheritance and settlement by great landowners from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries J. P. Cooper 9. The grid of inheritance: a comment E. P. Thompson 10. Private property in history V. G. Kieran Glossary Index.

Joan Thirsk

Papers

The Agrarian History of England and Wales

Economic Policy and Projects: The Development of a Consumer Society in Early Modern England

Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200–1800

Family and inheritance

Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800