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Spatial familiness and family spatialities—searching for fertile ground between family business and regional studies

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  • Basco, Rodrigo
  • Suwala, Lech
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This chapter searches for common fertile ground between the disciplines of family business studies and regional studies. Most existing studies linking both disciplines are fragmented and dispersed, thereby obstructing a systematic assessment of the cross fertilisation of knowledge. Based on their relationships to different spatial entities—a superordinate term for spatial factors, spatial structures, spatial processes, spatial contexts, spatial scales, spatial settings, spatial policies, and spatial concepts—we take stock of recent studies and attempt to shed new light upon the nexus of both disciplines. We present two more advanced theoretical models (i.e., the spatial family management model and the regional familiness model) that already incorporate the notion of spatial entities. We use these conceptual models to reflect on future lines of research and call for more interdisciplinary work to address research gaps and exchange insights around the ideas of ‘spatial familiness’ and ‘family spatialities’ on theoretical, empirical, and practical grounds.

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  • Basco, Rodrigo & Suwala, Lech, 2021. "Spatial familiness and family spatialities—searching for fertile ground between family business and regional studies," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, pages 7-32.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:espost:232281
    DOI: 10.4324/9780429058097-3
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    • R2 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis
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    • R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
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