Parenting the Successor: It Starts at Home and Leaves an Enduring Impact on the Family Business
研究家族企业中前任的育儿风格如何影响接班人的心理状态，进而影响员工行为，基于119家企业的数据与24个访谈。
Transferring leadership across generations is a defining characteristic of family businesses. Yet many successors underperform, and little is known about why. We extend parental control theory to develop a model of parenting effects in family businesses. Primary dyadic data from successors and subordinates in 119 family businesses, supplemented with 24 interviews with family business leaders, shows that predecessors’ parenting style affects successors’ psychological functioning, which impacts employees’ citizenship and counterproductive behaviors. Among firms that make it to the second generation, the seeds of success are partially sown long before succession takes place, drawing attention to the important role of parenting.