The Family Firm's Exclusion from Business School Research: Explaining the Void; Addressing the Opportunity
探讨为何大多数商学院研究忽视家族企业，分析家族企业与商学院研究之间的互动模式，并提出填补研究空白的建议，包括重新思考传统组织研究的假设和建立长期合作关系。
Why does the vast majority of business school research either ignore, or at best, gloss over the role of family in owning or managing business enterprises? This paper addresses this question and contemplates how the gap might be remedied. It begins by reviewing recent definitional work on the family firm in order to chart the parameters of the family business construct. It then proceeds to describe the nature of, and interaction patterns that have evolved between family firms, privately held corporations, faculties of business, and business school researchers seeking job security offered by tenure. The paper concludes by offering recommendations for addressing the family business research lacuna. The first recommendation focuses on rethinking the grounding assumptions that have undergirded much traditional organizational research. The second suggestion deals with methodological issues and recommends the patient nurture of long-term, mutually beneficial linkages with family firms that might facilitate in-depth longitudinal inquiry.