The Harilela Enterprises: An Indian Family Business in Hong Kong

Abstract

A second-generation, multi-billion-dollar Asian family business, run for decades by six brothers, faces issues of ownership, family employment, management, leadership, governance, and succession as it transitions to the third generation of siblings and cousins.

To examine ownership and leadership succession strategies and the preparation for next-generation leadership of a family business; study the relationship between business governance and family ownership; illustrate the dilemma of concentrated family ownership control vs. dispersed family ownership; and explore stewardship leadership as a burden and as an opportunity challenging the next-generation leader.

Citation

Ward, J., Mansinghka, S., Tran, E. and Sambamurthy, B. (2017), "The Harilela Enterprises: An Indian Family Business in Hong Kong", . https://doi.org/10.1108/case.kellogg.2016.000146