Control Structures Used in Family Business to Manage Wealth: Operationalization of Antecedent and Outcome Variables
这篇评论扩展了Zellweger和Kammerlander的研究，描述了如何操作化并检验他们假设的关系，包括测量家族成员的异质性与复杂性、家族控制的资产范围与规模，以及家族财富、沟通、幸福感和功能等结果变量。
This commentary extends the work of Zellweger and Kammerlander by describing how the relationships they hypothesize might be operationalized and tested. It more clearly defines and provides suggestions for how to measure the heterogeneity and complexity of family members and family relationships. It discusses how to operationalize the scope, scale, and complexity of assets controlled by the family, and the characteristics of agents who manage the process. In addition the commentary discusses outcome measures for the family such as family wealth, family communication, family happiness, and family functionality. It describes financial and operational measures of performance for the businesses controlled by the family. The commentary concludes by discussing outcome measures for individual family members and for the agents they employ.