Conflicting Generations: A New Theory of Family Business Rivalry
运用勒内·吉拉尔的三角欲望理论，结合伊万·兰斯伯格的继任规划与指导理论，解释家族企业中代际冲突的根源，并提出指导作为解决冲突的实用方案。
Anthropologist Rene Girard's theory of triangular desire and modeling makes a major contribution to the theory of family business rivalry, especially when understood within the context of Ivan Lansberg's theory of succession planning and mentoring. In Girard's theory, human desire is always dependent on the desire of an envied model. The dependent nature of desire inevitably leads to the double bind conflict between parent-child and employer-employee, making succession planning particularly troublesome. Lansberg's theory of mentoring provides a practical solution to this timeless conflict. Imitation is natural to man from childhood, one of his advantages over the lower animals being this, that he is the most imitative creature in the world and learns first by imitation. Aristotle What you have inherited, you must earn to possess. Goethe