Childhood exposure to family firm and transgenerational orientation: Moderated mediation of affective commitment
基于组织承诺理论，研究童年期接触家族企业经历如何通过情感承诺影响股东的跨代导向，并发现该中介效应仅存在于非管理股东中，且随其物质期望增加而减弱。
Based on organizational commitment theory, we explain how childhood exposure to the family firm (CEFF) impacts shareholders' affective commitment (AC) to the firm in later life. After we demonstrate how this AC mediates the relationship between shareholders' transgenerational orientation (TGO) and CEFF, we investigate the two factors moderating this mediation relationship: shareholders' non-manager status and material expectations from the firm. By utilizing a unique sample of 217 family firm shareholders from 174 family firms and a conditional process modeling analysis, we demonstrate that the AC mediates the relationship between CEFF and TGO. Accounting for differing manifestations of AC, this mediation effect only exists for non-managing shareholders and becomes weaker as nonmanaging shareholders' material expectations increase.