Paradoxes and Innovation in Family Firms: The Role of Paradoxical Thinking
研究开发了家族企业悖论张力和悖论思维的测量工具，发现悖论张力可能抑制创新行为，而领导者的悖论思维则能促进创新。
Scholars stress that family firms are inherently paradoxical, and that tensions, such as tradition versus change, family liquidity versus business growth, and founder control versus successor autonomy, can both inhibit and foster innovation. Further, theorists propose that firms led by paradoxical thinkers are more likely to manage these tensions and fuel innovative behavior. Leveraging family business and organizational paradox literatures, this multi–stage exploratory study develops measures of paradoxical tensions and paradoxical thinking in family firms, and tests these propositions. Findings indicate that paradoxical tensions may stymie innovative behavior, but that leaders’ paradoxical thinking is positively related to innovative behavior.