Agency, Stewardship, and the Universal-Family Firm
提出非血缘关系的普世家族企业概念，通过解读历史文献（如路加福音）来挑战和丰富当代家族企业中的管家与代理理论辩论，为学者提供利用历史资料发展理论的方法模板。
This article introduces the idea of a nonkinship-based Universal-family firm, an organizational form we developed based on interpreting historical writings in their socioeconomic context. We analyzed Luke’s gospel with an eye toward drawing implications for the stewardship agency debate in the contemporary family business literature. Our article makes contributions at two important levels. In addition to introducing and developing theory about the Universal-family firms, we also contribute to the methodological toolkit of family business scholars by providing a template for using historical documents to challenge, enhance, and develop theory.