Ethics in Family and Non-Family Owned Firms: An Exploratory Study
比较家族企业与非家族企业在伦理态度、行为和经历上的差异，发现家族企业较少有正式伦理准则，但更依赖非正式方法（如榜样示范）来促进伦理行为。
Limited research on ethics in family business leads to competing arguments regarding whether family firms are more, less or equally as ethical as non-family controlled firms. Comparing structured interview data from 214 respondents in family firms with a proportionally matched sample of 230 respondents in non-family-owned firms, we found few—but important—differences in ethics-related attitudes, behavior and experiences. Fewer family-owned businesses had formal codes of ethics. They were more likely to employ informal methods to promote ethical behavior, with role modeling of expected behaviors regarded as more important than in non-family firms.