Institutionalizing the Family Business: The Role of Professional Associations in Fostering a Change of Values
研究专业协会如何通过模仿和规范压力推动家族企业治理实践的制度化，揭示制度倡导者在连接微观企业变革与宏观协会话语中的关键作用。
The authors examine the role played by a voluntary professional association as a carrier of mimetic and normative institutional pressures in the institutionalization of new governance practices among family businesses. They observe how a change in guiding values within family businesses is led by an institutional champion actively involved in the professional association. This institutional champion bridges the gap between micro-level change at the firm level and the professional association’s macro-level discourse. This study makes several contributions to both family business research and institutional theory.