Promoting Family: A Contingency Model of Family Business Succession
研究了860家家族企业，发现特定隐性知识特征与有利交易氛围结合时，家族成员成为最合适的继任者，并提出了一个概念模型来概述何时优先选择内部家族继任。
Succession is a challenge to family businesses for a number of reasons, including the need to address the issue of intergenerational handover. This article focuses on one aspect of succession in family business by investigating when family members are preferred as successors. Results from 860 family businesses indicate that specific (tacit) knowledge characteristics combined with a favorable transaction atmosphere, in certain contexts, make a family member the most suitable successor. A conceptual model is presented that outlines when inside-family succession is preferred.