Drawbacks of a Dual Systems Approach to Family Firms: Can We Expand Our Thinking?
指出将家族企业视为家庭与商业双重系统的概念限制了对其本质的全面考察，并导致观察和干预的偏差，提出了将家族企业视为单一实体的初步观点。
Conceptualizing the family firm as a dual system with properties of both the family and the business has prevented the field from fully examining the nature of these firms and has biased our observations and interventions. Too narrow a focus on the contribution of subsystems leads to a stereotyping of subsystem functioning, inconsistent and inadequate analysis of interpersonal dynamics, exaggerated notions of subsystem boundaries, and an underanalysis of whole system characteristics. Each of these drawbacks is discussed, and a beginning view of the family firm as a single entity is presented.