Family Businesses and the Learning Organisation

At the core of this work is an explanatory research
study that seeks to investigate the learning
strategies of family businesses in Ireland, in the
small and medium-sized enterprise sector (SME),
within the framework of the theory of the learning
organisation. There is much debate about the
benefits of becoming a learning organisation. The
benefits of adopting a learning organisation culture
are that it ensures that the business is adaptive to
changes in the environment, is reactive to
developments in markets and is proactive to
its customers needs, wants and desires. Family
businesses have the same pressures for change as
professionally managed firms. This book will be of
assistance to owner/managers of family firms, its
management and staff; academics and family business
consultants as it provides a model for the
adaptation of the learning organisation within the
family business.

Autorentext

Dr Naomi Birdthistle received her PhD from the University of Limerick, Ireland. She is the course leader for the Masters of Business Studies in International Entrepreneurship Management at the University of Limerick. Her principal areas of research centres on issues concerning the family business and entrepreneurship related topic areas.

Klappentext

At the core of this work is an explanatory research study that seeks to investigate the learningstrategies of family businesses in Ireland, in the small and medium-sized enterprise sector (SME),within the framework of the theory of the learning organisation. There is much debate about the benefits of becoming a learning organisation. The benefits of adopting a learning organisation culture are that it ensures that the business is adaptive to changes in the environment, is reactive to developments in markets and is proactive toits customers needs, wants and desires. Familybusinesses have the same pressures for change as professionally managed firms. This book will be of assistance to owner/managers of family firms, its management and staff; academics and family business consultants as it provides a model for the adaptation of the learning organisation within the family business.