MFR SRL Rome: The Italian Family Business Affair
Phil Harris
(Senior Lecturer in the Department of Business Studies)
A. Frasca
(Graduate of La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.)
Uwe Jäkel
(Currently undertaking study in Business in Europe at the
Manchester Metropolitan University.)
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Abstract
The MFR case shows a typical small size company in the growing small business sector of Italy and how it has developed over the past seven years. From a family business which produced and marketed wallpaper in a traditional manner, Massimo Frasca has moved to develop a leading business which both supplies the wallpaper market and has diversified into the sunblind sector. Raises the important issues of how a family business is run.
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Citation
Harris, P., Frasca, A. and Jäkel, U. (1994), "MFR SRL Rome: The Italian Family Business Affair", Management Decision, Vol. 32 No. 3, pp. 34-37. https://doi.org/10.1108/00251749410057375
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1994, MCB UP Limited