Pride in family businesses: Authenticity, hubris, and cultural insights
研究家族企业下一代成员表达自豪情绪的影响，发现真实自豪比傲慢自豪更有利，且存在性别和文化差异，对家族企业形象管理有启示。
Research on family businesses praises the benefits of feeling proud of the family firm. However, pride displayed by next generation family members, who may have (yet) contributed little to the success, can create negative impressions. Building on emotions-as-social-information theory (E-A-S-I), we examine the perceptions of expressed pride in two experiments. Results from Western (Study1; N1 = 342) and Asian contexts (Study2; N2 = 98) show that (1) displaying authentic opposed to hubristic pride is more beneficial to the family member’s image, and (2) reveal differences between genders and cultures. We discuss implications for current theorizing and illustrate how the display of the emotion of pride can be used strategically.