Family Business Ownership: How To Be An Effective Shareholder - Softcover

Ward, John L.; Aronoff, Craig E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1891652052 ISBN 13: 9781891652059

Publisher: Family Enterprise Pub, 2001

Synopsis

Being an owner of a family business should be a satisfying, fulfilling and profitable experience. For some, however, ownership can be a painful experience, even leading to conflict. But it doesn't have to be this way.

In Family Business Ownership: How To Be An Effective Shareholder, we explore the far deeper rewards--spiritual, psychological, intellectual, emotional and financial-- that can come from being an effective shareholder in a healthy family business. We show you how to build cohesive leadership, and constructive, rewarding, supportive family owners.

No matter how many shareholders are in your family business, this title is a vital tool not only to make the business an asset to its owners, but its owners an asset to the business.

This book illuminates the:

*Roles and responsibilities of owners, managers and directors

*Development of the next generation owners

*Power of cohesive ownership

*Business information every shareholder needs to know

*Types of owners and ownership attitudes

*Rewards and limitations of ownership

*"Effective ownership" attitude and how to achieve it

*"Psychic rewards" of ownership

*Importance of a stewardship approach

*Value of good shareholder relations

About this title

About the Author:

Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D., holds the Dinos Eminent Scholar Chair of Private Enterprise and is professor of management at Kennesaw State University (Atlanta). He founded and directs the university’s Cox Family Enterprise Center. The center focuses on education and research for family businesses, and more than 100 universities worldwide have emulated its programs, In addition to his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and Masters from the University of Pennsylvania, he holds a Ph.D. in organizational communication from the University of Texas.

John L. Ward, Ph.D. is Clinical Professor of Family Enterprises at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He is a regular visiting lecturer at two European business schools. He has also previously been associate dean of Loyola University Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, and a senior associate with Strategic Planning Institute (PIMS) Program in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A graduate of Northwestern University (B.A. and Stanford Graduate School of Business (M.B.A. and Ph.D.), his Keeping the Family Business Healthy, Strategic Planning for the Family Business (authored with Randel S. Carlock), Creating Effective Boards for Private Enterprises are leading books in the family business field.

Together Dr. Aronoff and Dr. Ward are recognized as leaders in the family business field. Founding principals of The Family Business Consulting Group, they work with thousands of family businesses around the world. Recipients of the Family Firm Institute’s Beckhard Award for outstanding contributions to family business practice, they have spoken to family business audiences on every continent. The books include Family Business Sourcebook II, the three volume series, The Future of Private Enterprise and the fifteen volume series, Family Business Leadership Series.

Review:

"Knowing when and how to be involved in a family business can be a challenging task...shareholders need to know what their role is to make them effective and make their family businesses profitable now and for the future.  If you want to be a "good" owner--this book is for you."  —Philip A. Clemens, Chairman & CEO, Clemens Family Corp.

 

"If you are associated with a family business, you need to read this user-friendly primer.  Not just family business owners, but indeed everyone even remotely connected to a family business will want to read this.  Family Business Ownership: How To Be An Effective Shareholder is a much needed and superb addition to the already excellent Family Business Leadership Series."  —Bill Lucas, Laird-Norton

About this edition

• Publisher: Family Enterprise Pub
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1891652052
• ISBN 13: 9781891652059
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 67