Family business succession in dialogue: The case of differing backgrounds and views
基于对家族企业传承过程中真实对话的实时定性研究，运用巴赫金的“话语”理论，揭示了对话中差异、多声部与倾听三个维度如何促成传承中的瞬间转变，对研究者和实践者理解传承的当下时刻有启发。
This article develops a greater understanding of family business succession as a process taking place within emergent conversations. Based on a real-time qualitative study of an owner family’s conversations during succession and Bakhtin’s notion of the ‘utterance’, three dimensions of dialogic transformation are elaborated: the role of differences during conversations, the role of multi-voiced conversations and the role of listening during conversations. When these dimensions are viewed together, they contribute to current family business research by emphasizing the need to better understand the present moment during succession conversations. We are conceptualizing the present moment as a ‘living moment’, as a reminder of the once-occurring, unique and momentary transformation that can take place between family members in such encounters. Implications for research as well as practice are elaborated upon.