This book provides recent ideas, insights, facts, evidence, frameworks, and perspectives on how and why entrepreneurial families are successful over generations. The book focuses on how families successfully implement entrepreneurship across generations. That success, it argues, requires entrepreneurship at the level of the family, not only in the businesses the family owns and manages. Written by noted academics and consultants who are authorities on family entrepreneurship, the chapters provide a comprehensive exploration of the characteristics of successful entrepreneurial families, their motivations, how they behave over time, and, suggestions for how business families can encourage and sustain entrepreneurship. This comprehensive look at family entrepreneurship will serve as a fundamental reference text for family business consultants, owners, and scholars.

1. The Secrets of Successful Entrepreneurial Families: Insights from the World's Experts on Multi-Generational Entrepreneurial Families

Part 1: Characteristics of the Entrepreneurial Family
2. Family Capital: The Key to Entrepreneurial and Family Success
3: The Essential Role of Trust in Family Business Entrepreneurship
4:  Managing Legacy, Achievement and Identity in Entrepreneurial Families
5: Discerning the Importance and Nature of the Family System in Relation to the Family Firm: A Paradigm Shift
Part 2: Preparing the New Generation of Family Entrepreneurs
6: Can entrepreneurship be continued from one generation to the next? The answer to that question can be found in the socialization process
7: Tilling the Soil - and Wait and See how the Next Generation Develops
Part 3: Developing Entrepreneurial Leaders
8: Sustaining a Multi-Generational Family Enterprise Through Ambidextrous Leadership
9: The Importance of Externally Focused Self-awareness to Family Entrepreneurship
Part 4: Advancing Family Entrepreneurship
10: Antecedents to Entrepreneurship: How successful business families nurture agency and kindle the dreams of the next generation
11: Who do you think you are? Who do they think you are? The golden cage and the silver spoon
12: From family businesses to entrepreneurial families: Tacit knowledge at the core of entrepreneurial learning
13: The successor conundrum: A moral dilemma
14: Family Entrepreneurship Education: Where are we? Where do we need to go from here?
Part 5: Establishing the Entrepreneurial Family
15: Intrapreneurship: A new lens on developing capability in the rising generation
16: Gathering multiple generations at the dining room - The secret towards an entrepreneurial family continuity
17: Two sides of the same coin - How intra-family communication affects entrepreneurial spirit over generations in family businesses
18: The Family Business University: How to Live, Create and Tell your FamilyBusiness Story. Part 6: Fostering Family Entrepreneurs.-19: Nurturing the Next Generation Family Entrepreneurs in the Business Family
20: Upping Your Family's Entrepreneurial Game
Part 7: The Future of Family Entrepreneurship
21: Fostering Entrepreneurialism and Intrapreneurialism within the Family Enterprise System
22: From Allocators to Acquirers: The Family Investing Model and Transgenerational Entrepreneurship
23: Because family cares - building engagement for entrepreneurship through sustainability
24: Social capital, entrepreneurship and family businesses.<p></p><p></p>