Far from declining, family firms will remain an important feature of global capitalism for the foreseeable future, argues Adrian Wooldridge

Special report on Family companies
To those that have
Family companies: to have and to hold
Typology: United by diversity
The upsides: Old-fashioned virtues
The downsides: All too human
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