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Harmonizing the Family Business: Deconstructing the DNA of the Family Business

In: The Modern Family Business

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  • Stuart Graham
  • Claire Seaman

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The Modern Family Business has hoped to offer insight into the complex variety of relationships which make up the family business. The purpose of this final chapter is twofold: to bring together those relationships and to consider the complexity of the overview they offer. Further, this chapter seeks to provide an overview and conceptualization of family business relationships which draws on the metaphor of DNA. The conceptual representation of such businesses by means of a metaphoric analogy, the ‘DNA’ of the family business, allows both the complexity of family business relationships to be considered and also their capacity for change: The capacity of DNA to ‘blunder’ or mutate allows evolution to develop and stands here as a parallel to the process of ongoing change within family business. This process of change, development and variety is evidenced in many of the chapters within this book.

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  • Stuart Graham & Claire Seaman, 2012. "Harmonizing the Family Business: Deconstructing the DNA of the Family Business," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Modern Family Business, chapter 7, pages 210-226, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-00133-7_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137001337_7
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