Management and Organization Review Special Issue on ‘Expanding Research on Family Business in China’
该特刊聚焦中国家族企业，探讨其在经济改革后的发展、儒家文化影响及家族信任机制，适合研究中国民营经济与组织行为的学者参考。
Privately-operated enterprises, as opposed to state-operated enterprises, have been developing in China since economic reform began in 1979. Over this period, these firms have become dominant contributors to social and economic development in China. Most of them are organized around the family, with the family owning, governing, and/or managing the businesses. This is perhaps pardy due to the long-lasting and deeply embedded influence of Confucianism, which sees the family as the fundamental organizing unit of society. This focus on the family and its collective interests has caused many observers to characterize China as a collectivistic society in which individuals strongly value in-group relationships based upon kinship or other prescriptive ties. But it may also be the case that, due to the transitional nature of social, economic, political, and legal institutions in China, managerial opportunism is a more serious problem. As a result, social capital developed among family members and the unique ability of the family to discipline its members cause individuals to trust family members more than they do non-family members.