Programs : Family, Marriage, and Democracy : The Family and Capitalism
Seminars/Conferences : The Family and Capitalism
Ethics, Families, Entrepreneurship, and the Corporation:
A conference in honor of Peter Bauer
March 9-11, 2006
Princeton University
Sponsored by:
The Witherspoon Institute
The Program in Contemporary European Politics at Princeton University
The Bendheim Center of Finance at Princeton University
The History Department at Princeton University
Seminars/Conferences : The Family and Capitalism
Ethics, Families, Entrepreneurship, and the Corporation:
How the Family Molds Capitalism
A conference in honor of Peter Bauer
March 9-11, 2006
Princeton University
Sponsored by:
The Witherspoon Institute
The Program in Contemporary European Politics at Princeton University
The Bendheim Center of Finance at Princeton University
The History Department at Princeton University
(Note: These documents are password-protected. Please email Duncan Sahner, dsahner@winst.org, if you would like the password to view these documents.)
- John Ward "The Role of Family Business in our Economy: A review of family business performance and how it works differently"
- Harold James, "A Historical Perspective on the Family Firm"
- Isabelle Le Breton-Miller, Danny Miller, "Priorities, Practices and Strategies in Successful vs. Struggling Family Businesses"
- Randall Morck, "Why Family Firms Came to Predominate in Some Countries, but Not Others"
- Christopher Kobrak, "The Rise and Fall of International Family Banking: Private Banks, Capital Markets and Regulation"
- Andrea Colli, "When the Family is Strong, When the Family is Weak: Lessons from a Century of Italian Capitalism"
- Hartmut Berghoff, "Persistence or Demise of the Classic "Mittelstand"?: Small and Medium-sized Family Firms in the Federal Republic of Germany"
- John Padgett, "Organizational Invention and Elite Transformation: The Birth of Partnership Systems in Renaissance Florence" -- Background reading on same title, but more in-depth
- Robert Lerman, W. Bradford Wilcox, "The Wages of Wedlock: How and Why Marriage Reduces Poverty and Material Hardship"
- Nuria Chinchilla, "Why Become a Family Responsible Employer?"
- Samuel Gregg, "The Family and the Market: Insights from Adam Smith"
- Michael Novak, "The Forgotten Family" -- background reading