Help One Another, Use One Another: Toward an Anthropology of Family Business*

Alex Stewart

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2003, vol. 27, issue 4, 383-396

Abstract: Anthropological kinship theory is explored for potential contributions to a theory of family business. This article considers the costs and benefits of a role for kinship in business. Both derive from the discrepancy between the normative orders of kinship and markets; respectively, long–term generalized reciprocity and short–term balanced reciprocity. Because the former reflects the morality of society as a whole, kinship integrates social fields more readily than more specialized orders like markets.

Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1111/1540-8520.00016

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