Review of Women in Family Business: What Keeps You up at Night?

From where I write in Asia, the family business is a dominant form of business organisation. Often such businesses are based on the Chinese model: that is, they are pragmatic and opportunistic in considering new business ventures, they are controlled by one person (the founder) and, when it is time for succession, a new company will be spun off from the original so that the son (or daughter) can run a separate business without conflict with other family members.

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The Silk Road

In fact there were a number of different routes that could reasonably be called the ‘Silk Road’ or ‘Silk Route.’ Some travelled by land and some by sea. What they all had in common was that they linked the great Eastern markets of China with the markets of India, the Middle East and Mediterranean Europe.

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