An Assemblage–Theoretic Perspective on the Internationalization Processes of Family Firms
质疑现有文献对决策的过度关注，提出用组合理论重新审视家族企业国际化，将其视为对家族企业逻辑和惯例的破坏性影响，并关注触发因素、地理距离、文化差异等过程。
Much scholarly attention has been paid to the internationalization of family firms. In this paper, I contend that our knowledge remains limited because of a dominant focus on decision making. I problematize this dominant focus in the literature, propose assemblage theory as a new lens through which to examine family business internationalization, and draw attention to new research questions constructed around the conceptualization of internationalization as a destabilizing influence on family firm logics and routines. In doing so, I pay particular attention to processes associated with internationalization triggers, geographic distance, cultural differences and the family firm as an unfamiliar market actor, and to temporal considerations associated with these processes.