Publisher’s Note
Dear readers,
C
hange is inevitable. Business families are
family business experts who discussed the management of
encouraged to be flexible and adapt their
family and non-family employees. The special features section
organisations to new markets and the next
ends on a macro level with the insightful analysis provided by
generation. As a family business magazine we like
renowned academic Prof. Abbas J. Ali on the state of talent
to go along with the changes of family firms. So, as a first of
management in the Middle East.
many changes for Tharawat magazine in 2012, we would like to introduce two new sections: First, Global Family Business
In the third and last part of our Latin American spotlight series
News a section that we dedicate to the movements of family
we discover the history of a fourth generation Venezuelan
firms across the globe. Second, Interactive, the section that is
family business in an interview with Veronica Maldonado
dedicated to our online content and introduces our research
and are introduced to the five lenses of sustainable business
on family business information on social media sites.
practices in an expert article by Edward Nicholson.
In our features section we speak to family business leader
Last but not least, we are very happy to announce two
Mohammed Alkhorayef who shares his expertise on the
wonderful profiles in our SME section: The Fathallah family
agricultural sector in the Middle East. Our second article
from Lebanon and the Tunisian Sayadi family both speak of
explores the interaction between financial, corporate,
their histories and respective crafts and the futures of their
and family governance by wealth management experts
family businesses.
Grégoire Imfeld and Allard Lugard. Finally, Farida El Agamy deconstructs succession for family firms and provides two
We hope you enjoy our 14th issue and always welcome your
charts and a case study to illustrate solutions.
feedback.
In this issue’s special feature we dive into the complex matter of human capital in the family company: Beginning with an overview on human capital and its evolution through time by esteemed author Shirley Zinn, we continue by exploring the particularities of human capital management in the family firm described by Prof. Phillip Sieger. Nicola Billeh shares the Jordanian Nuqul Group’s experience in setting up an efficient HR system for a family firm. Our treat is the new article format we have implemented with Amy Schuman and Steve McClure: We documented a dialogue between these two
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Dr. Hischam El Agamy Publisher and Founder Tharawat magazine Tharawat Publishing FZ-LLC
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