Professional Management in Family Businesses: Toward an Extended Understanding
挑战了家族企业研究中专业管理的主流含义，基于文献回顾和解释性案例研究，提出专业管理依赖正式能力和文化能力两种胜任力，并强调文化能力对CEO有效性的关键作用。
Our purpose is to challenge the dominant meaning of professional management in family business research and to suggest an extended understanding of the concept. Based on a review of selected literature on professional management and with insights from cultural theory and symbolic interactionism, we draw on interpretive case research to argue that professional family business management rests on two competencies, formal and cultural, of which only the former is explicitly recognized in current family business literature. We elaborate on the meanings and implications of cultural competence and argue that without it a CEO of a family business is likely to work less effectively, no matter how good the formal qualifications and irrespective of family membership.