印记源自生物学，自引入组织研究已在战略、创业等领域得到广泛应用。家族企业决策不仅关乎家族和企业，更是反映历史印记与当前因素的平衡考量，也是体现创始人、家族和时代印记综合影响的结果。课题将从组织印记理论入手，通过案例研究和访谈，构建家族企业印记效应影响机制的理论模型，探讨不同印记特征影响家族企业绩效的内在机制，基于企业管治和战略行为两条路径分析中间机制，并集合产业特征、发展阶段检验中介效应可能的权变条件。并结合中国上市家族企业、私营企业调查和问卷调查进行大规模、跨时期、多效应的检验，进而与现有的社会情感财富理论、资源观等对话，深化中国家族企业异质性和动态性的理论解释。

Imprinting, is a concept from biology. It promotes the explanation on strategy and entrepreneurship since introduced into organizational research. Family business decision involves family and business, and also reflects the balance between historical imprints and contemporary factors, and is the interactive outcome of founder imprint, family imprint and temporal imprint. This project will integrate imprinting theory and family business context, explore the internal mechanism of imprint effects on firm performance, including two paths of firm governance and strategic behavior and examine the contingency effect of industry and stage related factors. Based on imprinting theory and case study, this project will construct the theoretical framework of family business imprinting and examine the imprinting effect through analysis on large scale-multitemporal-multieffect dataset from Chinese listed family firms, Private enterprise surveys. The project aims to carry a dialogue with Socioemotional wealth theory, Resource-based view to deepen our theoretical understanding on the heterogeneity and dynamics of Chinese family firms.