Attitudes of Owner-Managers' Children towards Family and Business Issues
研究调查了412名业主经理子女对家庭与商业关系的态度，发现存在两种态度集群：家庭内群体和家庭外群体，其中家庭内群体更可能视企业为家族企业，但实际加入情况与态度不完全一致。
This paper reports responses from 412 children of owner-managers (61% sons and 39% daughters) with regard to their attitudes to family and business Issues. The assumption in the study was that respondents would display a consistent set of attitudes toward the relationship between the family and the business. For example, those who believed that “management successors should be chosen from the family” would also consider “the business (to be) stronger with family members involved.” Moreover, this group would view their parents’ business as a family business and would have joined or intend to join. The reverse would also apply. In other words, those who did not believe that “management successors should be chosen from the family” would nor view their parents’ business as a family business, and would have no intention to join. In the study, two distinct clusters of attitude were identified and were labelled the Family in and Family Out groups. While those in the Family in group were more likely to consider the business to be a family business, the results for the Family Out group were more complicated. The relationship held for those currently working in the business—the halo effect—but not for the rest. In other words, it was quite possible to belong to the Family in group and to see the business as a family business but not to have joined.