"Family Business, Challenges and Opportunities" is the title of a course at the Universidad Internacional del Mar to be held in the municipality of Cartagena during the week of 14 to 18 September and will be led by a professor at the University of Murcia and Director of the Family Business Chair Juan Monreal Martínez.
According to officials of this initiative, "Family businesses have now become an important engine of economies, being the largest corporate structure around the world."
For most research in Europe, Latin America and the United States, family businesses account for between 70 and 90 percent of the companies in each country.
The family business has unique features that could lead to different behavior when the other firms, are called "intangible assets", as their own family status gives them a greater degree of protection to the tradition and values of the company.
"Around the family business-say-has come to identify a distinct corporate culture, living together as two completely independent subsystems with differing purposes such as: family and business."
The course will cover the understanding of the characteristics of family businesses from a business standpoint and legal through the study of past, present and future prospects of these companies.
It has a duration of 30 hours, and who are registered will be entitled to three free credits.
Information and registration (until September 7):
http://www.um.es/unimar/ficha-curso.php?estado=V&cc=50442
Source: UMU