Family businesses play a key role in the Canadian landscape, with a significant percentage being family firms. Familybusinesses have unique opportunities and challenges that include: managing conflict, succession planning, family power, intergenerational dynamics, and strategic long-term planning. This course will look at family enterprise systems, governance, behavioural/psychological characteristics, theoretical approaches, and analytical models. Case studies, group work, community family-business leaders and professionals will provide learning scenarios and theoretical frameworks as preparation for students who plan to provide professional services or become family-business leaders in the future.
Family businesses play a key role in the Canadian landscape, with a significant percentage being family firms. Familybusinesses have unique opportunities and challenges that include: managing conflict, succession planning, family power, intergenerational dynamics, and strategic long-term planning. This course will look at family enterprise systems, governance, behavioural/psychological characteristics, theoretical approaches, and analytical models. Case studies, group work, community family-business leaders and professionals will provide learning scenarios and theoretical frameworks as preparation for students who plan to provide professional services or become family-business leaders in the future.
