What Can the Family Contribute to Business? Examining Contractual Relationships
探讨了家族式经营与市场化契约关系在不同情境下的优劣，指出家庭身份、信任等非正式关系有时比正式合同更能激励成功，而正式关系在另一些情况下更有效。
The degree to which the family dominates as a form of business organization depends in part on whether a business's operations favor the implicit informal personal relationships of families or the explicit, formal, impersonal contractual relationships, characteristic of market-oriented organizations. In some situations family identity, trust, personal ties, and the monitoring functions that family relationships provide promote greater incentives for success than explicit, formal contracts. In other cases, formal relationships can provide a more effective means of linking workers within the firm, even when the workers are family members.