Family Dynasty Research Articles

Drawing on Copper: The Basire Family of Copper-Plate Engravers and their Works. Richard Goddard.

The huge expansion in the demand for prints in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries produced a new phenomenon in the history of British printmaking, the family dynasty. Familiar in Paris from the late seventeenth century onwards, they first appear in London after 1750 with the Basires and Heaths, and run on after 1800 with the Findens, Cookes, Pyes, and many more. Almost all of them remain unstudied by professional historians, and they have remained the preserve of amateur enthusiasts. The most recent is Richard Goddard who has produced an extremely well researched monograph on the four generations of the Basire family, Isaac and then three successive Jameses, who between them cover the years from the 1730s to the 1850s. The author now works in the financial world, but began as a doctoral student at Oxford, and his route to the Basire family was through inheriting a group of family papers (his full name is Richard Neil Basire Goddard). The papers in truth do not amount to much, but he has examined far more thoroughly than anyone before him the existing resources, in particular the registers of births and deaths, the wills and the papers of their clients, among whom the most important were the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Society, the University of Oxford, the Nichols family, and Richard Gough whose papers are in the Bodleian, as well as the new resources opened up on the web. These have yielded a surprisingly dense volume of information, which is presented at some length in this self-published book of over 300 pages. It would have benefited from a good editor, and the index is fairly rudimentary, but this will unquestionably remain the standard work for a long time.

Historiography in Saudi Arabia: Globalization and the State in the Middle East

Historiography in Saudi Arabia: Globalization and the State in the Middle East

Documents of Humanitarian Law and Support of Family in the Situation of Armed Conflicts

At current era, international humanitarian law has much importance and different dimensions while before the establishment of the United Nations Organization; merely bill conventions considered this issue. But after the formation of the United Nations Organization, Geneva rights were formed in 1949. Humanitarian law has different dimensions like family discussions that have been reflected in numerous documents of humanitarian law. For example, in quadruple Geneva conventions and two additional protocols, the cases from this view for exerting some humane supports of families can be considered. Even in some cases, according to the competence of the international penal court, some crimes against women and children have been criminalized, and massive criminal guarantees have been ordained for dealing with them. Therefore, in this article about the necessity and importance of the support of a family dynasty as the central core of human societies, numerous documents of humanitarian law have been studied and analyzed for supporting this important social element. Also, this result was obtained that in armed conflicts such as domestic or international, protection of a relation between the family members and special support of women, physically challenged persons and children in the first degree are considered as supportive priorities in Geneva conventions and supportive documents of humanitarian law.

Nicaragua: A Return to Caudillismo

Nicaragua’s 2016 elections saw President Daniel Ortega win a third consecutive term, and his wife, Rosario Murillo, become Vice President, in the face of an opposition abstention campaign. Since winning the presidency in 2007, Ortega has consolidated control over Nicaragua’s institutions and economy while rejecting his revolutionary roots, stifling opposition parties and civil society, and enriching his family and associates. Ortega’s move from electoral victory to caudillo-style strongman rule offers a Latin American parallel to contemporary autocratic transitions in cases like Russia, Turkey, and Hungary. Absent a crisis, Nicaraguans face an uphill battle to restore democracy and avert a new family dynasty.

Incentive or Disincentive? A Socioemotional Wealth Explanation of New Industry Entry in Family Business Groups

We examine how controlling owners’ family considerations affect their new industry entry decisions in family business groups in emerging economies. Drawing on the socioemotional wealth (SEW) approach, we conceive the new industry entry decision as controlling owners’ response to pursue various family interests. In particular, we distinguish two aspects of SEW, focused SEW and broad SEW, and theorize their opposing effects on the new industry entry decision. We propose that controlling owners’ likelihood to pursue new industry entry is negatively influenced by the exercise of family influence (a representative of the focused SEW) but is positively associated with the succession of family dynasty (a typical form of the broad SEW). Furthermore, we argue that the effects of SEW preservation on such decisions are contingent on controlling owners’ generation, with the effects to be stronger when the founder generation is in control. We test these hypotheses with a sample of Taiwanese family business groups and find general support for our predictions.

Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec: The Taschereaus and McCords by Brian Young

Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec: The Taschereaus and McCords, by Brian Young. Montreal & Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014. 472 pp. $110.00 Cdn (cloth), $34.95 Cdn (paper). On one level, Brian Young's Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec: The Taschereaus and the McCords represents challenge to two major interpretations of Quebec history: the Laurentian thesis and the Quebec nationalist perspective. Situated as it is in the tradition of the great Canadian and Quebec historian, Louise Dechene, Young's work emphasizes the importance of the feudal tradition in the shaping of Quebec history both before and after the Conquest. But to understand Young's impressive accomplishment solely on that level would be to do it great disservice. As comparative study of elite authority in Quebec, it is deeply informed by plethora of broad historical debates and represents culmination of Young's own intellectual evolution, from focus upon legal and economic history, to addressing complex questions on how issues of gender, culture, modernity, and family shape history. Young leaves few stones unturned as his narrative traces the lives of two patrician Quebec families over successive generations--the Taschereaus and the McCords--aligning the family and the individual against and within the backdrop of Quebec history and the larger geo-political events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. From the outset, Young draws the reader into the layered and complex lives of the individuals he examines. With great skill, Young depicts the decline of the McCord family after 160 years of ascendency in Quebec. He captures the irony of John McCord's (1711-1793) family experience as an immigrant to Quebec. McCord was an Ulster Protestant Scot, successful merchant and trader with international connections, with decided bent toward an elected assembly, and he lay the foundations of family dynasty for his son Thomas McCord (1750-1824). Yet, when his son leased Montreal convent lands, unlike his father, he stepped into a larger understanding of seigneurial legal and social relations (126) and gradually assumed the mantles of patrician status. This adaptability fails to perpetuate itself into subsequent generations, and by the mid-nineteenth century the McCord dynasty is on the decline. Clinging to the remnants of fading patrician authority and isolated from the true centres of modernizing Montreal, by the mid-nineteenth century John Samuel McCord (1801-1865) begins to lose his grip on the family's position. This descent into obscurity culminates with the next generation, David Ross McCord (1844-1930). Beginning with brief career in law and politics and disadvantageous marriage, McCord, mentally unstable and increasingly isolated, eventually devotes himself to memory, collecting, and an obsession with representations of masculine historical violence. The fortunes of the Taschereau family offer striking contrast to this grim portrait of dissolution. Generation after generation of successful patrician strategies of consolidation and adaptation in the Beauce culminate in the person of Archbishop Elzear-Alexandre Taschereau (1820-1898). Although deeply entrenched in the traditional Catholic and French Canadian nationalism of his family, he remained selectively open to aspects of modernity that served to consolidate his position, ensuring for himself and his entire family the honour of cult status in the pantheon of Quebec nationalist history. …

REPRESENTATION OF KIM JONG-UN’S SUCCESSION IN BBC NEWS: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

This research attempts to reveal representation of Kim Jong-Un’s succession in BBC News through textual and discursive practice analysis. The data of this thesis are taken from BBC News website on 29 and 31 December 2011. The theory applied to seek the objective of the research is Critical Discourse Analysis developed by Fairclough. Through textual and discursive practice analysis, the writer finds pthat BBC employs more passive material clauses than active material clauses in depicting Kim Jong-Un’s succession. BBC also represents Kim Jong-Un’s succession as premature process where Kim Jong-Un is portrayed as a young and inexperienced leader. Besides the prematurity of the succession, the present writer finds that BBC represents Kim Jong-Un’s succession as continuity of Kim’s family dynasty. Thus, the succession is based on his resemblance to Kim Il-Sung, the founder of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, rather than Kim Jong-Un ability and competency.

Doug Kahn: The Pied Piper of Tax Law

Doug Kahn’s love of tax law appears to be contagious. His wife was a tax lawyer, his son is now a tax law professor, and even his daughter in law is a tax lawyer. Doug may have caught the “tax disease” from his elder brother, who was also a leading tax lawyer. In politics, we have the Kennedys, the Bushes, and the Clintons; in the world of tax law, we have the Kahn family dynasty. One can only assume that the discussions around the family Thanksgiving table sliced and diced tax regulations and policies right along with the turkey and trimmings. Doug attained his “pied piper” status by inspiring untold numbers of law students to follow him in the study and practice of tax law in the years since he joined the Michigan Law faculty in 1964. Many, if not most of these law students took Doug’s tax courses because they felt they needed to, rather than out of any compelling desire to immerse themselves in tax law. After all, tax law is generally considered difficult to understand, and Doug’s courses had the reputation of requiring a great deal of work. The great Albert Einstein may have formulated the theory of relativity, but even he had a hard time grasping tax law, reportedly saying, “[t]he hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes.”

Protection of Privacy in Designing of Residential Complexes Architecture and Its Effect on Constructive Relations among the Residents

<p class="zhengwen"><span lang="EN-GB">Abode is the most important provider of civilization and house is the best protection of social culture of the society. Abode is the protector of the family dynasty and the relations among its members. Having suitable abode like other human needs is one of the primary rights of humans and it has been emphasized in constitutional law (article thirty one). Lack of abode and its unsuitable quality has direct and close relation with increasing of delinquency, divorce and social disruption and it is accounted as a deterrent factor in social, cultural and mental development and moderation. Also not having abode causes to create the social abnormal phenomena such as sleep street, hutment and slum that such life gives abnormal personality structure to the person. Lack of abode or its unsuitable quality is accounted an effective factor in creating phenomena like anxiety, depression and behavorial disorders and causes to decrease the mental and physical resistence of the person in facing with problems. Therefore planning for protection of privacy and residents independency despites the existence of healthy and constructive social interactions in residential complexes is an important thing. The purpose of this research is discussing about the importance of constructive privacy existence in residential complexes and the manner, quality and effective factors in formation of it. In order to promote the research, descriptive-analytic methodology has been applied and the method of information collecting is in the kind of documentary study which is embarked to analyze the received information by using of qualitative contents analysis.</span></p>

The Reporting Strategy of Earnings before Family CEO Succession

Family firms are deeply associated with a family¡¦s specific connections with stakeholders. A critical issue for family businesses is how a family firm can successfully transit these specific assets to later generations in order to perpetuate a family dynasty. Although the CEO transition process plays a key role in determining the prospects of a family firm, stakeholders may doubt the family successors at the time of transition. It is important for the family to preserve the entirety of these unique assets upon succession, as failure to do so may result in detrimental effects for the firm. To sustain the prospects of a family business, a firm may intend to manage its image by increasing earnings in order to sustain relationships with its stakeholders. This study is an attempt to contribute to the study of family succession and earnings management by analyzing whether a family heir affects the behavior of a family firm in regard to reporting earnings before succession. This study found that firms with family succession CEOs experience significantly positive earnings management before succession. Moreover, firms with younger family succession CEOs are more likely to manage earnings prior to succession. In addition, voluntary turnover CEO¡¦s have a positive moderating effect on the relationship between family succession and prior-succession earnings management. Only in firms where the succeeding CEOs are family heirs and have founders who still serve on the board is there higher incentive to inflate earnings before CEO turnover. Finally, for firms with a higher percentage of family ownership as well as a family succession CEO, higher prior-turnover earnings management is also evident.

Sisters, militias and Islam in conflict: questioning ‘reconciliation’ in Nahdlatul Wathan, Lombok, Indonesia

‘My children will separate for a fifth of a century’. So reads a line from one of Maulana Syeikh’s prophecies that he wrote as testimonial poetry in 1981. And it happened. In the aftermath of the local saint’s death in 1997, just as he had predicted, his only two children, the sisters Raehanun and Rauhun, separated in conflict because Raehanun was democratically elected to lead Lombok’s largest Islamic organization, Nahdlatul Wathan (NW), a decision vehemently opposed by Rauhun and her supporters, who reasoned that women cannot be leaders of men according to the Syafi’i school of law. This gendered event occurred at an historical moment in Indonesian history when President Suharto fell from power, initiating waves of change throughout the Archipelago, and island of Lombok was on the fault-line. Regional autonomy in East Lombok has enabled ruling elites to re-surface and engage in political power struggles of their own making to ensure the survival of the NW family dynasty, now divided into two separate organizations as a result of ongoing conflict. The emergence of Raehanun’s and Rauhun’s respective private Cont Islam (2012) 6:29–43 DOI 10.1007/s11562-011-0168-5

Sri Lanka: From Turmoil to Dynasty

While successive post-independence governments' ethnocentric policies undermined liberal democracy and led to Sri Lanka's civil war, the extraconstitutional and extrajudicial strategies President Mahinda Rajapaksa adopted to defeat the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the tactics he has since pursued to perpetuate his tenure as president, and the malpractices he and his supporters have perpetrated in order to create a Rajapaksa family dynasty have ushered in a soft authoritarian dispensation that could very well lead to a hard authoritarian milieu.

Understanding family dynasty: Nurturing the corporate identity across generations

Understanding family dynasty: Nurturing the corporate identity across generations

Burghley: William Cecil at the court of Elizabeth I

William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598), was the closest adviser to England's Queen Elizabeth I and-as this revealing and provocative biography shows-he was the driving force behind the Queen's reign for four decades. Cecil's impact on the development of the English state was deep and personal. A committed Protestant, he guided domestic and foreign affairs with the confidence of his religious conviction. Believing himself the divinely instigated protector of his monarch, he felt able to disobey her direct commands. He was uncompromising, obsessive, and supremely self-assured-a cunning politician as well as a consummate servant. This comprehensive biography gives proper weight to Cecil's formative years, his subtle navigation of the reigns of Edward VI and Mary I, his lifelong enmity with Mary Queen of Scots, and his obsession with family dynasty. It also provides a fresh account of Elizabeth I and her reign, uncovering limitations and concerns about invasions, succession, and conspiracy. Intimate, authoritative, and enormously readable, this book redefines our understanding of the Elizabethan period.

Chambonnières, A Thematic Catalogue: The Complete Works of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (1601/02–1672) (review)

Reviewed by: Chambonnières, A Thematic Catalogue: The Complete Works of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (1601/02–1672) Stuart Cheney Chambonnières, A Thematic Catalogue: The Complete Works of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (1601/02–1672). Compiled by Bruce Gustafson. http://sscm-jscm.press.uiuc.edu//instrumenta.html (accessed 19 November 2008). The high quality and thoroughness that we justifiably expect from Bruce Gustaf son's work with French harpsichord music and its sources is evident everywhere in this new online catalog. Gustafson has already produced the groundwork for research in his French Harpsichord Music of the 17th Century: A Thematic Catalog of the Sources with Commentary (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1979), as well as numerous articles and editions of the music. The author's previous work on Jacques Champion de Chambonnières began with the 1979 catalog, its 1990 updates in an appendix to A Catalogue of French Harpsichord Music, 1699–1780 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), and continues with the Broude Trust's forthcoming modern edition of the famous Bauyn manuscript. That Gustafson would return to Chambonnières over the years is natural since this music is the foundation of the magnificent and influential French harpsichord school that flourished from the 1630s beyond the mid-eighteenth century. Chambon nières was a third-generation keyboard performer and composer in French royal service. His father Jacques Champion, sieur de la chapelle, and grandfather Thomas Champion (called "Mithou") were highly praised by Marin Mersenne in his Harmonie universelle (Paris: S. Cramoisy, 1636–37), who went on to describe Cham bon nières's playing and compositions as evidence that the harpsichord had "met its ultimate master." Hundreds of manuscript copies of Chambonnières's works produced during and after his lifetime attest to his popularity, and less than two years before his death he printed two books of his harpsichord pieces. Chambonnières's astute judgment of young Louis Couperin brought the latter to Paris in the early 1650s and established that family's dynasty in organ and harpsichord performance across the eighteenth century. Chambon nières also taught Jacques Hardel and perhaps Jean Henry d'Anglebert. The Chambonnières thematic catalog is the first volume in a new series—JSCM Instrumenta—produced by the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, the online journal of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music. These are data collections that can be "revised by the author when new information is discovered." This catalog is also the foundation for a complete works edition, underway by Gustafson and Denis Herlin. After Gustafson's preface, where he justifies the need for a catalog to gain control of the "complex web of concordances and versions" of Chambonnières's works, the introduction provides Chambonnières's biography, followed by overviews of the printed and manuscript sources. The "Explanation of the Catalogue" clearly guides the user through the catalog's contents and features, explaining its structure, ordering, abbreviations, and other details. These introductory materials end with the list of RISM abbreviations for the seventy-six libraries (to date) that own manuscripts or prints with Chambonnières's music. The catalog itself follows, listing the 153 known harpsichord works attributed to Chambonnières. Because chronology is frequently difficult to ascertain in these works, Gustafson's ordering is based on authority; he begins with sixty pieces in the order that [End Page 489] the composer himself determined for his two published collections (both printed in 1670) then moves to works that appear only in manuscripts, beginning with the most authoritative. Each catalog entry provides the "G" catalog number, standard generic title(s) for the piece, any applicable characteristic title, key, a "skeletal" melodic incipit from two to six measures long, numbers of measures in each strain, a list of known sources, and where applicable, any parodies and modern editions. The names of manuscript sources follow the usage introduced over the years by scholars and will be familiar to those who have worked in the field—these names are also explained in the later section called "Musical Sources." Gustafson refers to the remaining sections as "supplemental files." The three indexes enable the user to approach the works from a variety of...

Francois Couperin and 'the Perfection of Music' (review)

François Couperin and 'The Perfection of Music.' By David Tunley. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. [viii, 172 p. ISBN 0-7546-0928-6. $94.95.] Music examples, index, bibliography, appendices.

Multigenerational Transition in Family Businesses: A New Explanatory Model

This article presents an explanatory model for transfer of family businesses to following generations. Our research using 10 case studies shows that transfer of family businesses is a lifelong, continuous process, in which the family must address and foster the soft elements of the transfer process: enterpreneurship, freedom, values, outside experience, upbringing, and education. Furthermore, a business family can develop into a family dynasty only when it embraces sound governance as a fundamental principle; that is, the individual family member belongs to the family, which belongs to the business.

The Othello Conundrum: The Inner Contagion of Leadership

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature on leadership, emotions and organizations by examining Shakespeare’s Othello. While much of the existing literature focuses exclusively on the external dimensions of leadership, this paper adds a new dimension by focusing as well on the internal workings of the mind of the leader, here that of Othello. This focus is made possible by postulating that the subordinate Iago — whose relationship to Othello is central to the plot — represents an inner character within Othello’s mind, as well as an external character. As an inner character, Iago fills Othello’s mind with powerful feelings of jealousy and envy, especially about an alleged relationship between Othello’s wife and his lieutenant, Cassio. Othello’s conundrum thus concerns whether he should tolerate these feelings and live with his uncertainty about his wife’s purported infidelity, or, alternatively, try to rid himself of these feelings by killing her and Cassio. Concepts from psychoanalysis and a variety of other traditions are drawn on. Following this, there is an exploration of a contemporary reference, that of the demise of the Gucci family dynasty. The paper ends with an examination of the implications and a conclusion.

Sustaining a Family Dynasty: Key Issues Facing Complex Multigenerational Business- and Investment-Owning Families

As a business family moves from the second to the third, fourth, and succeeding generations, and seeks to maintain shared family control of its often highly diversified financial and business assets, families around the world have created a complex web of structures, agreements, councils, and forms of accountability to manage their wealth. In working with such multigenerational dynasties around the world, we have begun to see that successful transmission of wealth, and sustaining of family connection, depends on a highly creative web of such structures. This article will focus on the structures and agreements that we have seen in such families. A family that owns a business, or substantial investments, is at the intersection of several complex systems and serves a multitude of masters, purposes, and constituencies. Facing continual change from the business environment, and from internal pressures as people develop, in order to thrive, the family must develop a clear infrastructure to manage the interrelationships of people, business, and investment. It must regulate and integrate the interests and concerns of the many people in many ways. As a family enters the third generation, it has become a complex structure with several family branches, diverse interests and stakeholders, and challenges to sustain collaboration and effectiveness. This article presents the key challenges that a family must face to create an effective dynasty over generations and illustrates models and best practices for how effective family dynasties develop a governance infrastructure as they grow into multigenerational family dynasties. It highlights the core structures that make up effective governance and the key agreements that allow a dynasty to work.

The Legacy of Wealth: Primogeniture Among The Rockefellers

The philanthropic and corporate legacy of the Rockefeller family is visible through the heirs of John D. Rockefeller's youngest child and only son. However, between 1866 and 1872, Rockefeller and his wife also had four daughters, two of whom lived to maturity. Alta and Edith Rockefeller, while older than their brother, nonetheless were accountable to him and to their father. Early on, John D. Rockefeller targeted his son to inherit the wealth and responsibility of the Rockefeller name. Using correspondence from 1904 through 1937 between the sisters and their father, brother, and their advisers, a portrait emerges of a father and son who controlled the economic direction of the family dynasty. However, Alta and Edith did not acquiesce in silence. This article explores the ways in which the two women tried to assert agency and control their resources.