Patient Capital

The Role of Family Firms in Sustainable Business

Sanjay Sharma, Pramodita Sharma

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781107123663
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108657518
• Topic: Commerce
• Subtopic: Déontologie des affaires

Sustainable businesses create economic and social value while simultaneously protecting the natural environment for future generations. This examination of environmental sustainability through the lens of the family business identifies factors that help family and non-family organizations address the dilemma of balancing short-term productivity, efficiency and profitability objectives, with innovating for long-term sustainable value creation. Exploring the case of the wine industry - an industry characterized by a variety of governance systems - Sanjay and Pramodita Sharma develop fresh insights into influences and drivers for proactive environmental strategies to address major global sustainability challenges. By doing so, the authors are able to demonstrate that family firms with a focus on trans-generational continuity of business, long temporal orientation, shared vision, faster decision-making processes, and the goal of preserving socio-emotional wealth are more likely to make patient long-term investments for innovations in products, services, processes and business models to address environmental sustainability challenges.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Preface
• 1 Definitions
• 2 Primary Data: Cases from the Winery Industry in Canada, France, and Chile
• 3 Exogenous Drivers of Corporate Environmental Sustainability Strategy
• 4 Organizational Drivers of Corporate Environmental Sustainability Strategy
• 5 Managerial Drivers of Environmental Sustainability Strategy
• 6 Bringing the Family into the Corporate Environmental Sustainability Strategy: Implications for Research, Education, and Policy
• Index