Family Business Cases: Insights And Perspectives From The United Arab Emirates (springer Business Cases)

This book provides insights into family businesses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) using a unique collection of case studies that help gain a comprehensive understanding of UAE family firms' profiles and the ways they respond to everyday challenges and future disruptions. Cases treat different issues from the perspective of family businesses, such as succession, innovation, decision-making, strategic orientation, corporate governance, spatial distribution, SDG alignment, etc. Each case contains learning objectives, discussion questions, and suggested readings in order to help readers understand the topic discussed in the respective cases. This book also showcases the five business ecosystem stakeholders that have supported family businesses in the UAE, such as the UAE Government, free zone authorities, university and research institutions, support agencies, and venture capital companies.

The GDP of the United Arab Emirate's (UAE) economy is reported to have grown 35% in 2006, making it one of the fastest growing economies in the world. This has attracted unprecedented levels of foreign investment, which has resulted in efforts to bring its intellectual property laws into line with international standards.

This book shows how an encounter with everyday nationhood in the northern United Arab Emirates can make us revisit the classics of sociology as continuous analytical world-views. Through the textual universe of Georg Simmel, and in particular his analysis of modern life as the feeling of dualism, the project reflects about how seemingly crucial challenges to the national – the forces of globalization and the wish to be unique – are drawn together with the formation of nationhood in everyday life. It does so not least by attending to the instances of everyday nationhood – like fashion and car-driving – that are at the same time central ways of embodying the modern. This volume appeals to students of nationalism, classical sociology, and the modern Arab Gulf.