Personalism, Particularism, and the Competitive Behaviors and Advantages of Family Firms: An Introduction
这篇导论用个人主义和特殊主义的概念，综合了特刊中关于家族企业与非家族企业行为差异的文章，解释家族企业独特行为如何带来竞争优势或劣势。
Fundamental assumptions of any theory of the family firm are that family firms will behave in ways that differ from nonfamily firms, and that the behaviors of family firms will also exhibit substantial variations. This special issue includes a set of articles and commentaries that study such differences. This introduction synthesizes these articles using the concepts of personalism and particularism. We argue that the set of articles contained in this special issue contributes to the literature by explaining how the ability and willingness of family firms to behave in an idiosyncratic fashion leads to advantages and disadvantages that distinguish between family and nonfamily firms and between different types of family firms.