Francisco Javier Fernández-Roca

Universidad Pablo de Olavide | UPO · Department of Economy, Cuantitative Methods and Economic History

As opposed to most literature on the history of family firms, this article focuses on the continuance of business –products, services, markets– which is not the same as the longevity of the firm, understood as the maintenance of ownership, control or management, or of the business family, with its kinship connections, succession of generations, etc...

This article aims at contributing to the study of the factors conducive to a successful intergenerational transfer within a family business, understood as that which favors the longevity of the family firms. The literature has pointed out how such transmissions tend to generate tensions that can threaten the survival of the family firms and busines...

The literature on internationalisation processes in family businesses has boomed with the emergence of new approaches and different perspectives. One of these schemes analyses the so-called born-again global firms, mostly technology companies, which experienced an internationalisation process after one or more serious incidents affecting it. The ca...

Defining the concept of family business is an ongoing challenge. The debate around it is here discussed from the point of view of business history and family business theories as developed in the last fifteen years. Historians are interested in reflecting changes in family businesses at different periods and within different societies, and focus th...

The longevity of family businesses is one of the most significant questions in this research from the point of view of knowing the risks and factors that contribute to their long-term survival. We highlight the role of family cohesion as a facilitator of such longevity. Cohesion enables succession, because when problems arise those family businesse...

This article contributes to a line of research in Business History that aims to determine the factors of family business longevity in the long term with the study of individual cases. The literature has identified family cohesion as one of the essential factors for survival. Cohesion may be reinforced or broken at the time of the intergenerational...

This book by Carlos Dávila is a revised, enlarged, and improved edition of a work first published in 1986. It has three well-defined sections: the first one presents a literature review, the second one reflects the author’s theoretical contribution to the topic, and the third one, which is divided into two subsections, includes a case study. Chapte...

This study, based on family business theories, offers an innovative vision of the Spanish cotton industry. It proves that Spanish cotton companies – just like their European counterparts – implemented a strategy that was consistent with their nature as family businesses and went beyond the economic-institutional frames within which they developed....

p> En la España del primer franquismo, la política económica autárquica y el marco institucional intervencionista provocaron que los agentes económicos no se comportaran buscando la eficiencia económica, sino como buscadores de rentas. En este artículo se estudia, en primer lugar, el tráfico de influencias en las entregas directas de activos o en...

This article studies the strategy developed by the Benedictine Community at the Monastery of Montserrat to conceal their patrimony through the constitution of a public limited company. The singularity of this case lies in the opacity that the Benedictines created regarding their properties in the eyes of the government and in the fact that the publ...

This article explores the strategies carried out by the Spanish cotton industry, drawing the distinction between dynastic and non-dynastic companies, and the business strategies to preserve the family firm, to keep the control of management in the hands of the founder's family, and to maintain long-term living standards. To achieve this, companies...

En el artículo se estudia la industria desmotadora inserta en la política económica española, en especial la del franquismo, y estrechamente relacionada con el cultivo del algodón. Los tres aspectos (industria desmotadora, algodón y Estado) son indisociables porque las políticas comerciales proteccionistas del algodón y el marco institucional const...

En la nota damos a conocer determinados datos económicos de una empresa que nació y evolucionó de manera sincrónica con el franquismo y que ejemplifica la política industrial del Nuevo Régimen por la protectión que recibió de manera directa e indirecta por parte del Estado. Hytasa fue, además, la mayor empresa industrial privada andaluza. Aseveraci...