The Adolescence of Family Firm Research
回顾了家族企业研究在过去十年的快速发展，指出该领域已进入青春期，并探讨了家族企业如何影响财务绩效以及制度条件如何调节绩效差异，旨在推动家族企业研究融入更广泛的组织科学。
Through its rapid growth during the past decade, family business research has reached its adolescence as a field of study, and family business scholars now regularly contribute interesting and thought-provoking work to top-tier management, entrepreneurship, and finance journals. In this review article, the authors seek to document the growing maturity of family business research and to promote its integration into broader streams of inquiry in the organizational sciences. To do so, the authors describe recent family business research that addresses two fundamental questions: “How do firms differ in terms of their financial performance?” and “How do institutional conditions moderate performance differences between firms?” Based on their review, the authors describe the past and potential future contributions of family business research and conclude that it holds great promise to “give back” and provide meaningful contributions to the general field of management.