Making Sense of the Process of Creating and Reproducing Chinese Family Business
This paper intends to develop an alternative view of family business which shifts the focus of family business research from specific factors to the process of doing family business. Based on analysis of field-work material collected from two Chinese subcultures, the author argues that it is the shared, institutionalized understanding of family business that shapes the way individuals make sense of and enact their organizational lives to create, maintain and, in many cases, to reproduce family businesses. This paper challenges the assumption which sees family as a factor that exists out there as oversimplified and also inappropriate for understanding family businesses. Furthermore, the view that family and business are two systems, sometimes conflicting with each other, is misleading in describing and understanding family businesses.
Chinese Family Business Social Constructionism Embeddedness
Wing Lam Michael J.Harker
University of Central Lancashire,UK Strathclyde University,UK
国际会议
Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2008(创新与创业国际学术会议)
北京
英文
254-261
2008-03-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）