Dear Colleagues,
Before I became the Editor-in-Chief, several special issues were developed to capture significant business phenomena in China. One such special issue focuses on Family Business in China, with Professors Xiaowei (Rose) Luo, Peter Ping Li, and Dali Ma as guest editors. After more than two years of preparation, it is finally published in the April issue of 2022. Congratulations!
This special issue contains an introductory piece, five research papers, and one perspective paper. These papers, taken together, paint a rich and intricate picture of the unique characteristics of Chinese family businesses and the challenges they face. For instance, the perspective paper (Chen et al., 2022) deconstructs the social and emotional wealth family firms own as their core properties, and the paper by He and Liu (2022) reveals the difficulty in balancing socioemotional wealth and legitimacy of family businesses. More importantly, these papers explore how private firms deal with the challenges to grow or become 'hidden champions.' For example, Lei et al.'s (2022) paper reveals the importance of matching structural attributes and managerial cognition based on content, Lyu et al.'s (2022) paper discovers the relationship between political marriage and family firm growth, which they call 'instrumental love', and Zhu and Kang's (2022) paper studies how co-governance of intergenerational succession is related to innovation activities in Chinese family firms.
Without spoiling further, I will leave it to you to read this exciting new issue of MOR. The former MOR editor Arie Lewin also wrote an editorial that provides background for the imperatives behind this special issue.
I hope you find the special issue informative and insightful. Enjoy reading!
Xiao-Ping Chen
Editor-in-Chief
Management and Organization Review
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Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Family Business in China
Volume 18 - Special Issue 2 - April 2022
Letter from the Editor
Editorial
Introduction Article
The Intersection of Economic, Social, and Political Forces: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Family Businesses in China
Perspectives
Deconstructing Socioemotional Wealth: Social Wealth and Emotional Wealth as Core Properties of Family Firms
Articles
Between Legitimacy and Socioemotional Wealth: Family Ownership and the Party Branches Building of Chinese Private Enterprises
Instrumental Love: Political Marriage and Family Firm Growth
Perceived Parental Care and Next-Generation Family Members' Succession Intentions: The Sequential-Mediating Role of General Self-Efficacy and Perceived Person-Job Fit
A Far-Reaching Parental Love? Co-Governance of Intergenerational Succession and Innovation Activities in Chinese Family Firms
The Match Between Structural Attributes and Content-Based Orientation of Managerial Cognition: An Exploratory fsQCA Study of 'Hidden Champions'
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Xiao-Ping Chen
University of Washington
Seattle WA
(206) 543-2265
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