Scenarios about 'family businesses'
Family businesses are commercial enterprises in which ownership and management control remain within a single family across multiple generations. These organizations represent one of the oldest forms of business structure in human history, from medieval guilds to modern corporations, often embodying distinctive values, traditions, and succession challenges. In alternate history scenarios, the trajectory of powerful family businesses like the Medicis, Rothschilds, or Toyodas can significantly alter economic development, political influence, and the concentration of wealth across societies.
What If Germany's Mittelstand Companies Took a Different Approach to Globalization?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Germany's famed middle-market companies embraced aggressive global expansion and public ownership models rather than maintaining their traditional conservative, family-owned structure.