Unleashing the Relationship Power of Family Firms: Identity Confirmation as a Catalyst for Performance
提出家族企业可以通过发展身份确认这一独特且难以模仿的竞争资源，释放和利用其与非家族企业不同的关系能力，并探讨了身份确认对继任及其他关系挑战的影响。
This paper adopts a broad perspective on identity and identity relations and argues that family businesses can develop identity confirmation as a unique, hard to imitate competitive resource that unleashes and leverages the relational capabilities that differentiate them from nonfamily businesses. A person's identities are “confirmed” in a business, to the extent they are supported therein. Identity and identity confirmation research is marshaled to consider the impact of identity confirmation on succession. Implications for other relational challenges family businesses face are explored. The potential for family business research to contribute to a general theory of the firm is illustrated.