A configurational approach to strategic change in family firms
研究了家族企业中治理结构、组织价值观、能力和企业规模如何相互依赖并组合成不同组态，从而影响战略变革水平，对理解家族企业战略决策有参考价值。
Strategic change is essential for an organization’s long-term performance and survival. Research has investigated how governance structures, organizational values, capabilities, and firm size, in isolation from one another, influence family firms’ strategic change, yet insights in family firm literature suggest the need to examine the fit among these dimensions. We employ a configurational approach and a framework built from models of fit in family firm literature to examine the interdependence among these dimensions. Using a primary dataset of 275 Belgian private family firms and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), we identify six configurations leading to high levels of strategic change and three configurations explaining low levels of strategic change. This study contributes to the literature by advancing our understanding of how multiple interdependent dimensions, namely, governance structures, organizational values, capabilities, and firm size, combine to better explain strategic change levels in family firms. The findings also provide concrete formulas for practitioners to create a fit among specific factors in these dimensions to promote strategic change.