Over 80% of the large companies in the world are family businesses. This percentage rises when we talk about small companies. Everybody is linked to some kind of family company, whether it is ones own, that of a supplier, etc.
But when dealing with this kind of business, one must take into account what type of family business it is, in order to diagnose its possible evolution.
Within family businesses, "Business-driven family companies" are those where the company rules of the game apply to the family members, while "Family-driven companies" are those where the family rules of the game apply to the company.
Belohlavek has researched in widely different cultures, developed, emerging and underdeveloped, in family-driven companies and business-driven family companies. There have been failures and successes. Both results gave rise to the research that is condensed in this R&D e-book and that aims to provide an applicable conceptual framework to the family-driven company and the business-driven family company.
To understand the business-driven family company is a very simple task if it is dealt with from its concepts. If it is done so by appearances it is a highly complex system and with too many subjective elements, but if dealt with from its concepts it becomes simple and manageable.