Socialization Patterns of Successors in First- to Second-Generation Family Businesses
研究了家族企业创始人如何通过社会化过程向潜在继任者传递价值观，识别出两个社会化阶段和两种模式（创始人同质再生产模型与新领导者发展模型），并揭示了创始人依赖悖论对下一代的影响。
This paper focuses on the socialization of potential successors in family business and attempts to relate this process to values that founders intend to convey to the next generation. We found that founders' values condition potential successors' socialization and that there are two different phases common to all socialization processes. The first stage, characterized by family socialization and common to all founders' descendants, comprises value transmission and training. The second stage is characterized by business socialization and reserved only for the founder's potential successors. We also identified two models of socialization that pursue two different aims: (a) the Founder Homosocial Reproduction Model and (b) the New Leader Development Model. These socialization models are consistent not only with values that the founder intends to convey to potential successors but also with the founder's own business perception. We present and explain the distribution of these two models according to each group of founders. Finally, we reveal the content of what we call the founder's dependence paradox and the effect on the next-generation socialization process.