TY - BOOK ID - 16191706 TI - Family Business and Technological Innovation : Empirical Insights from the Italian Pharmaceutical Industry AU - Perri, Alessandra. AU - Peruffo, Enzo. PY - 2017 SN - 3319615963 3319615955 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Business. KW - Family-owned business enterprises. KW - Leadership. KW - Organization. KW - Planning. KW - Personnel management. KW - Management. KW - Industrial management. KW - Pharmaceutical technology. KW - Business and Management. KW - Family Business. KW - Innovation/Technology Management. KW - Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology. KW - Business Strategy/Leadership. KW - Human Resource Management. KW - Family-owned business enterprises KW - Pharmaceutical industry KW - Technological innovations. KW - Medical innovations KW - Business enterprises, Family-owned KW - Family business KW - Family businesses KW - Family enterprises KW - Family firms KW - Business enterprises KW - Family-owned business enterprise. KW - Administration KW - Industrial relations KW - Organization KW - Ability KW - Command of troops KW - Followership KW - Pharmaceutical laboratory techniques KW - Pharmaceutical laboratory technology KW - Technology, Pharmaceutical KW - Technology KW - Corporations KW - Employment management KW - Human resource management KW - Human resources management KW - Manpower utilization KW - Personnel administration KW - Management KW - Public administration KW - Employees KW - Employment practices liability insurance KW - Supervision of employees KW - Organisation KW - Personnel management KW - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Executive ability KW - Business administration KW - Business management KW - Corporate management KW - Industrial administration KW - Management, Industrial KW - Rationalization of industry KW - Scientific management KW - Business KW - Industrial organization UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16191706 AB - This book explores technological innovation in family firms, seeking to reconstruct the links between the heterogeneous dimensions of family businesses and their innovative behaviour. Building on and examining the traditional view of family firms as conservative, this book contributes to knowledge surrounding the puzzling role of family firms in technological innovation, with particular focus on the Italian pharmaceutical industry. The authors explore technological advances within the industry in connection with various features of family governance. This thought-provoking study is divided into two parts, the first part providing an overview of  current literature on the topic, and the second part analysing the findings of empirical investigation in a specific industry setting. Practitioners and academics of business strategy will find this book extremely useful as it combines both solid theoretical reasoning and robust empirical analysis. ER -