Institutional complexity and family business development: a case study of the Charoen Pokphand group
Institutional complexity and family business development: a case study of the Charoen Pokphand group
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制度复杂性与家族企业发展：以正大集团为例
DOI：
10.1108/nbri-05-2021-0033
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Erming Xu
中科院分区：
文献类型：
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作者：
Bo Wang;Q. Liang;Lihong Song;Erming Xu
目的
家族企业兼具“家”与“商”的双重特征，在其组织与决策过程中，必须寻求“家”的情感层面与“商”的经济层面的平衡，以确保家族企业家精神的可持续性。本研究旨在关注内部制度复杂性如何随着家族企业的发展而演变。
设计/方法/方式
本研究从制度逻辑的视角，以海外华人家族企业的缩影--卜蜂集团为研究对象，构建了复杂制度背景下的家族企业成长模型。
结果
研究发现，随着家族企业的成长，组织内部的制度复杂性会经历从结盟期到维持期再到主导期的变化。然后进一步阐述了家族企业在不同发展阶段的主动应对过程。企业家精神的培育与家族价值观和文化的延续并重，是中国家族企业寻求家族逻辑与商业逻辑平衡的重要机制。
独创性/价值
本文揭示了家族企业演化过程中制度复杂性的变化及其作为组织的代理作用过程，同时也部分揭示了海外华人家族企业成长过程中所具有的企业家精神特征，这对于探索和构建中国家族企业特有的成长路径具有积极意义。
Purpose
With features of both “family” and “business,” family businesses must seek a balance between the emotional aspect of “family” and the economic aspect of “business” in its organizational and decision-making processes to ensure the sustainability of the family’s entrepreneurship. This study aims to focus on how internal institutional complexity combined evolves alongside the growth of the family business.
Design/methodology/approach
The research looks, from the perspective of institutional logic, into the Charoen Pokphand Group, which is an epitome of overseas Chinese family businesses and proceeds to build a model of family business growth in the context of institutional complexity.
Findings
The research finds that as a family business grows, institutional complexity inside the organization would change from aligned period to sustaining period and then to dominant period. Then further elucidates the process of proactive response in different stages of the development of a family business. Attaching equal importance to the cultivation of entrepreneurship and to the continuation of family values and culture is the crucial mechanism by which Chinese family businesses seek a balance between family logic and business logic.
Originality/value
This paper unveils the change of institutional complexity in the evolution of family businesses and the process of action of its agency as an organization, and simultaneously partly reveals the features of entrepreneurship that overseas Chinese family businesses have as they grew, which is of positive significance for exploring and building a path of growth unique to Chinese family businesses.