RT Journal Article
T1 Business must go on: 175 years of an olive oil business beyond firms and families
A1 Fernández-Roca, Fco. Javier
A1 López-Manjón, Jesús D.
K1 Business Continuity
K1 Business History
K1 Family firm
K1 Entrepreneurial family
K1 Longevity
K1 Ownership
K1 Management
K1 Markets
K1 Case Study
K1 Spain
K1 Olive Oil Business
K1 19th-20th Centuries
AB As opposed to most literature on the history of family firms, this article focuses on the continuance of business -products, services, markets-, which is not the same as the longevity of the firm, understood as the maintenance of ownership, control or management, or of the business family, with its kinship connections, succession of generations, etc. The article aims at demonstrating how a business can be perpetuated regardless of firms or owning families. For this purpose, it studies the case of an olive oil business related to several families and companies (most of them family firms) from 1857 to the present day. The history of this olive oil business explains how it persisted throughout the years with its factories, products and trademarks being transferred from firm to firm and from owner to owner. The work also underlines how, in this process, each new firm and each new owner claimed the accumulated heritage as their own.The article insists on the continuation of the business activity and highlights the relevance of studying, not only companies and owning families, but the businesses they develop.
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 1743-7938
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10433/12621
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10433/12621
LA en
NO Business History Volumen 63 Nº 3 P. 421-442
NO Identificador de proyecto: PID2019-104063GB-I00
NO Universidad Pablo de Olavide
DS RIO
RD May 8, 2026