The Burden of History in the Family Business Organization
通过尼采的历史负担理论和莎士比亚《李尔王》的故事，探讨家族企业传承中“不可能馈赠”的困境，回应组织研究中对历史视角的呼吁，并推动家族企业研究融入组织研究。
In this article we focus on the study of history through the use of narratives, within the context of the prevalent form of organization worldwide: the family business. Specifically we consider the dilemma of the impossible gift of succession using Nietzsche’s discussion of the burden of history and paralleling the story of a family business succession with that of Shakespeare’s King Lear. This way, we seek to make a contribution to organizational studies by answering recent calls to engage more with history in studies of business organizations. By implication, the study also initiates an integration of family business studies into organization studies.