A 10-Year Longitudinal Investigation of Strategy, Systems, and Environment on Innovation in Family Firms
通过10年纵向数据，研究了家族企业中领导层更替、沟通机制和技术进步对创新的影响，发现家族企业与创新的关联可能比当前普遍认为的更强。
This article studies innovation in family firms, filling in some gaps in existent literature. The research addresses the idea of shifting leadership, different mechanisms of facilitating communication, and the importance to the firm of technical progress, linking each to innovation. Shifting leadership is addressed through the longitudinal design. Communication mechanisms are monitored through two constructs: scope of information and timeliness of information. Technical progress is included in an environmental uncertainty factor technoeconomic uncertainty. The findings suggest that linkages between established family firms and innovation may be substantially stronger than currently assumed by many.