Jane Glover
Visiting associate
Dr Jane Glover is a Visiting associate at the Centre for women’s Enterprise, Leadership & Diversity [WE LEAD] at the University of York. Jane’s research focuses on family firms and relationships between family firms and their wider economic and social environments and on the socio-emotional wealth of creating sustainable small family farms and how the wider supply chain affects small family farms ability to engage in sustainable and socially just business practices.
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Dr Jane Glover is a Visiting associate at the Centre for women’s Enterprise, Leadership & Diversity [WE LEAD] at the University of York. Jane’s research focuses on family firms and relationships between family firms and their wider economic and social environments and on the socio-emotional wealth of creating sustainable small family farms and how the wider supply chain affects small family farms ability to engage in sustainable and socially just business practices.
What is the social-economic contribution of family firms in the UK? A review of the evidence. SOTA Review No 45
Published: 30 September 2020
In this review, we present a summary of the evidence on the social-economic contributions that family businesses make to the United Kingdom (UK). First, we explore the research on the economic contributions that family firms make, before exploring the ways in which family businesses contribute to the social fabric of the areas in which they operate. Finally, we argue that there is a gap in the evidence in relation to the interlinked nature of the social-economic contributions made and the need for a wider, holistic view of the way family businesses contribute to society.