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- ISBN 9781041000891
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explores how family-owned businesses live and act across multiple temporal horizons—past, present, and future—and how those horizons shape strategy, identity, and everyday organizing. The book’s motivation is to offer a comprehensive, practice-relevant lens on how family firms uniquely experience and manage the tensions of time: honoring historical legacies without becoming captive to them, meeting present operational realities without myopia, and opening credible futures without severing recognizability. Throughout, the authors show how this dynamic interplay is decisive for long-term sustainability and renewal in enterprising families.
Silvia Sanasi is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management at the University of Bergamo. She holds a PhD with honors from Politecnico di Milano (2022), where her dissertation on business model experimentation was shortlisted for the Academy of Management's Outstanding Dissertation Award. Her research sits at the crossroads of strategy and organization theory, exploring innovation, venture scaling, and how organizations navigate uncertainty to shape their future. She publishes in leading international journals, serves on several editorial boards, and is active in the Academy of Management. She has taught and researched at institutions in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, and holds a faculty role at Politecnico di Milano's Graduate School of Management.
Vittoria Magrelli is a senior researcher at the University G. D'Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara and former member of the Center for Family Business Management at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. She holds a PhD in Management from Lancaster University (2019). Her research centers on intergenerational dynamics, innovation, and resource transfer in entrepreneurial families, with a focus on governance models that balance tradition and change. She publishes in leading journals, and serves on the Editorial Board of Family Business Review. She teaches entrepreneurship, innovation, and family business at undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels, and consults with entrepreneurial families on generational transition and long-term sustainability.
