The Transitional Nature of the Multifamily Business
研究了多家族企业相比单一家族企业更易过渡的原因，探讨初始条件与组织环境因素如何影响其形成、持续和解散，对理解家族企业异质性有帮助。
Family firms are heterogeneous and often transitioning. To advance our understanding of how and why family firms change, we draw upon and extend the work of Pieper, Smith, Kudlats, and Astrachan by more closely considering the nature of the multifamily business, which is the focal type of organization in their study. Specifically, we explore how initial founding conditions and ongoing organizational and environmental factors may influence the formation, sustainability, and dissolution of the multifamily business, relative to single–family firms or other organizational forms. We argue that multifamily forms may be more common than generally believed, but tend to be a transitory organizational form.