AFF9100

Family business issues I

(BUS)

Associate Professor Kosmas Smyrnios

6 points (Executive Certificate in Family Business) + 3 hours per week + Caulfield

Synopsis: Issues of family and organisational cultures, and the interrelationship between them. How culture is articulated at an early stage of the business, how it is communicated to employees and other generations, and how it is cultivated and changed. The 'institutional overlap' between business and the socio-familial system. What successful family businesses have in common.

Assessment: Individual assignment (2000 words): 15% + Case study exercise (3000 words): 20% + Individual presentation (20 minutes): 15% + Written examination (3 hours): 50%