Family and Business Family at the Same Time: The Duplicated Family

Arist von Schlippe (), Tom A. Rüsen () and Torsten Groth ()
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Arist von Schlippe: Witten/Herdecke University
Tom A. Rüsen: Witten/Herdecke University
Torsten Groth: Witten/Herdecke University

Chapter 4 in The Two Sides of the Business Family, 2021, pp 73-87 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract What does a business family do when it has to continuously balance family, business and shareholder-related contexts? Business families are not businesses, yet neither are they solely and exclusively families. They can be seen as distinct social systems defined by oscillating identity requirements. As a visual symbol for this, we have chosen the image of the reversible figure: the family is always both a family and a business family—two different social systems—at the same time. As in the familiar optical illusions, the image is reversed and appears to be something entirely different, and so it is with the family: suddenly it appears as being a business family and, as such, in a completely different context than if it were only a family (and vice versa). This idea will be pursued in the pages that follow.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-60200-0_4

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