Patterns of Succession and Continuity in Family-Owned Businesses: Study of an Ethnic Community
通过美国东南部一个族裔社区的案例，研究父权家庭文化如何影响家族企业应对社会经济变化，重点关注小企业如何在家族内部实现控制权转移，并探讨信任、社会资本及后代技能对成功继承的作用。
This paper examines ways in which patriarchalqfamilistic cultural systems condition responses to the kinds of social and economic changes that challenge family-owned businesses. Using a case study of an ethnic enclave in the southeastern United States, the paper looks at intergenerational succession, paying particular attention to how small firms manage to transfer control within the family. Key to successful transfer is the presence of trust and the utilization of social capital as well as the ability of successive generations to acquire skills that enable them to identify new market niches. The manuscript also discusses how firms manage conflict between old and new ideas, develop informal mechanisms for incorporating new ideas, and maintain the flexibility necessary for market survival.