Rethinking family business education
Abstract
Purpose
Family businesses consist of a family system, a business system, and an ownership system. Current undergraduate business education only prepares family business students with business system education, thereby leaving the student with a misconception of the environment in which they will work. The paper aims to discuss these issues.
Design/methodology/approach
Business education must change to provide these students with an integrated curriculum that allows them to make connections across disciplines, and provides the additional soft skills and hard skills needed to accomplish the task.
Findings
The authors propose a conception focussed curriculum to accomplish this task and make suggestions on how such a system might be implemented.
Originality/value
This approach provides family business educators with a model that they can implement, thereby better preparing family business students for their return to their family work.
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Citation
Burch, G.F., Batchelor, J.H., Burch, J.J. and Heller, N.A. (2015), "Rethinking family business education", Journal of Family Business Management, Vol. 5 No. 2, pp. 277-293. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFBM-02-2015-0007
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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