1: Business Group
A business group or corporate group refers to a group of companies including holding and subsidiary companies which are under the same management and are subject to same administrative and financial controls. In a business group, all the key managerial positions are held by the virtue of skill/talent and not by status or association to a particular family.
2: Family Business
A family business is aggregate of two terms: family and business.Family business is a business run by a particular family.Initially when a business is started it is like any ordinary business but as the time passes, various generations of the family gets involved and it becomes a family business where key managerial positions by held by the family members.
In a family business decision making authority lies with only the family members; family members may be close or extended, may be connected through marriage or blood. Decision making is centralized at the top level of the management.In a family owned business top level positions are held by family members across generations.Not only decision making lies in the hands of family members but the control and ownership also rest with the family members.One of the family members is major shareholder who acts CEO of the company.
Another unique feature of the family business is that there is no separation of ownership and management.
In India, after independence there were mainly family businesses in the private sector. Famous family businesses that existed at that time were: Tata, Birla, Dabur, Bajaj and a few others. Since 1980’s, when the economic environmentin India became less restrictive, many family businesses have flourished. Sincethen number of businesses both family and non-family have grown exponentially. It is usually said the first generation builds, the second generation holds, and the third generation ends the family business.But this myth has been broken in India.In India we have many first,second and third generation family business.Famous
Third Generation Business: Tata, Birla,Bajaj group,Hero group,Dabur
Second Generation Business: Reliance, Wipro
First generation Business: Adani Group,Future Group,Bharti Enterprises
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