The power of people in family firms
作为特刊引言，回顾并整合了五篇关于家族企业人力资本与独特社会动态的研究，强调理解构成家族企业的人对完善家族企业理论的重要性。
Family business scholars have long sought a comprehensive theory on the family firm. A nascent but still-developing aspect of this theory involves understanding the unique challenges of the people who constitute these firms. Our introduction to the Theories of Family Enterprise special collection discusses the literature on human capital and related issues in family firms and then reviews, integrates, and extends the contributions of the five articles in this special collection. These five papers contribute to a better understanding of the indelible social dynamics that are associated with managing family firms and the uniqueness of the people who inhabit them. By bringing a clearer focus on the people who constitute family businesses, these articles collectively contribute to a more comprehensive theory of the family firm and offer several directions for future research.