The Persistence of Multifamily Firms: Founder Imprinting, Simple Rules, and Monitoring Processes
研究了至少两个无血缘关系的创始家族共同经营的企业，发现它们通过创始人留下的简单规则实现有效相互监控，从而维持多家族组织形式数代，而缺乏这种规则的企业则放弃了该形式。
This study focuses on a particular form of family businesses—businesses with at least two unrelated founding families—and how their organizational form of a multifamily business persists over several generations. Using an inductive approach to study five multifamily cases, we discovered that these firms did not meet complexity with complex structures and processes. Instead, four cases developed and utilized simple rules imprinted by the founders and pulled through to current generations, enabling effective mutual monitoring and persistence of the multifamily organizational form. The lack of simple rules development is associated with one multifamily business to abandon this organizational form.