Is Nepotism Good or Bad? Types of Nepotism and Implications for Knowledge Management
区分了两种裙带关系（权利型与互惠型），提出互惠型裙带关系通过促进家族成员间的广义社会交换，有利于隐性知识管理，从而带来竞争优势。
In contrast to the literature that portrays nepotism as generally problematic, we develop a conceptual model to explain why some family firms benefit from nepotism while others do not. We distinguish two types of nepotism based on how nepots are chosen. We elaborate the differences between entitlement nepotism and reciprocal nepotism. We propose that reciprocal (vs. entitlement) nepotism is associated with three family conditions that indicate generalized (vs. restricted) social exchange relationships between family members. We also suggest that generalized social exchanges are valuable to firms because they facilitate tacit knowledge management that can lead to competitive advantage.