Talking About (My) Generation: The Use of Generation as Rhetorical History in Family Business
指出家族企业研究主要将“世代”视为血缘谱系，忽略了其作为社会归属类别和修辞性历史的视角。通过建构性历史方法，识别了四种“世代”用法，揭示家族叙事如何建立连续性或变化，并强调历史叙事形式对理解修辞性历史过程至关重要。
The concept of “generation” in family business scholarship is primarily used genealogically to reflect family lineage. This approach fails to account for complementary perspectives that are more established in history: “generation” as a category of societal belonging and a form of rhetorical history. Using a constitutive history approach, we identify four usages of “generation” by which these narratives can establish continuity or change in how families talk about themselves and foreground either family dynamics or embeddedness in societal developments. The form of historical narratives and how they mark time, we argue, is core to understanding rhetorical history processes.