The Bulleye: A Systems Approach to Modeling Family Firms
基于开放系统方法，构建了一个多层级、考虑子系统间动态与相互依赖的家族企业模型，旨在整合主流理论，帮助研究者推进理论构建，并让从业者更好理解家族企业的特殊性。
The purpose of this article is to develop a model of family business that accounts for the unique characteristics and diversity of family businesses and addresses the dynamics among family business subsystems. An open-systems approach serves as the conceptual foundation of the model. The distinctive features of the proposed model are the multiple levels of analysis and the dynamics and interdependencies among the subsystems, allowing the integration of mainstream theories. The model can serve to discover and explore a relevant research question in the context of family business, which may help researchers advance theory building on family business. Furthermore, the model may help family business practitioners better understand the particularities of family firms.