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The Importance of Values in Family Businesses in Spreading Ethical Business Paradigms

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Integrity in Organizations

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on values in family firms and suggests that family businesses have a great opportunity in spreading ethical business paradigms. They differ from non-family businesses in how values can be transmitted across generations and among members. The arguments are the following:

A few words to introduce a complex topic. Values, climate, and culture. Family business: a pervasive phenomenon. Family business values: basic concepts. Certain critical aspects of family firm values. The role of family values in the creation of family firm climate and culture. Towards a new ethical business paradigm.

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  1. Cinzia Dessì
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  1. Goethe Business School, Germany

    Wolfgang Amann

  2. Silesian University of Technology, Poland

    Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch (Associate Professor of Management) (Associate Professor of Management)

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Dessì, C., Floris, M. (2013). The Importance of Values in Family Businesses in Spreading Ethical Business Paradigms. In: Amann, W., Stachowicz-Stanusch, A. (eds) Integrity in Organizations. Humanism in Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137280350_14

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