Family Business in Tourism and Hospitality by Getz, Donald; Carlsen, Jack; Morrison, Alison;

Rövid leírás:

This book is the first academic treatment of family business issues within the tourism and hospitality industry. It provides comprehensive assessment of ownership, management and family-related concerns across the entire business and family life cycle. Many new international case studies of real family businesses are used to illustrate key points.

Hosszú leírás:

The family business is a global phenomenon, and is particularly prominent in tourism and hospitality. In many cases, the family business was developed for the purpose of facilitating personal and family goals. For example, in rural areas, farmers can use tourism as a way to generate additional income, thereby remaining in the area and retaining family property. Running a bed and breakfast establishment is a way to mix family and work. Lifestyle, locational and autonomy motives are the norm, but profit and growth-oriented entrepreneurs are also found within family businesses.This book is the first academic treatment of family business issues within the tourism and hospitality industry. It provides comprehensive assessment of ownership, management and family-related concerns across the entire business and family life cycle. Many new international case studies of real family businesses are used to illustrate key points. The book will be of significant interest to researchers and students in tourism and hospitality, small business and entrepreneurship studies, as well as to owners and potential investors in family businesses.

"Although there are many papers and articles on Small and medium-sized Tourism Enterprises this is the first book that focuses on family business issues within the tourism and hospitality industry."
Dimitrios Buhalis, The Tourism Society Journal, June 2004

"This book elevates ths study of family businesses in tourism and serves as a very valuable first contribution and an important source of knowledge for future researchers and family businesses alike. A strength of the book as a text lies in the fact that the book integrates previously unpublished case histories and thus is research-based."
A McIntosh, Journal of Sustainable Tourism

"It is likely to be used and cited as a core research publication in this field, and is well worth reading and indeed purchasing. It does not seem to be intended as a teaching text, despite coincidentally having 13 chapters, but I would commend it strongly as supplementary material, not least because of its specialist bibliography.
C Ollenburg, Journal of Ecotourism, 4(3), 2005

"I am certain that in future, whenever a student is engaged in small-business research of any kind and they come to me with a query, I shall reach for this book and say, 'Let's see what Getz et al. have to say on the subject.'
Peter Jones, The Hospitality Review, 38, April 2005

Tartalomjegyzék:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Entrepreneurship and family business
• Chapter 3: Starting the family business
• Chapter 4: Sustaining and developing the family business
• Chapter 5: Balancing family and business through the life cycle
• Chapter 6: Farm-based family businesses
• Chapter 7: Family owned and operated small hotels
• Chapter 8: Family owned nature-based resorts
• Chapter 9: Family owned and operated tour companies
• Chapter 10: Family owned tourist attractions and wineries
• Chapter 11: Cross-case analysis
• Chapter 12: Implications for family businesses and tourism destinations
• Chapter 13: Implications for research and theory
• I: Bibliography