Understanding Hybrid-Identity Organizations: The Case of Publicly Listed Family Businesses

Börje Boers () and Mattias Nordqvist
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Börje Boers: Jönköping International Business School
Mattias Nordqvist: Jönköping International Business School

Chapter Chapter 15 in Understanding Family Businesses, 2012, pp 251-269 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Family businesses are characterized by the combination of two institutions – the family and the business – that are traditionally assumed to be based on different identities (Tagiuri and Davis 1996; Ward 1987). Based on this fundamental feature of family businesses, we develop the idea of the family business as a hybrid-identity organization (Arregle et al. 2007; Foreman and Whetten 2002). Borys and Jemison (1989) define hybrids as “…organizational arrangements that use resources and/or governance structures from more than one existing organization” (p. 235), and Albert and Whetten (1985) define hybrid-identity organizations as “…an organization whose identity is composed of two or more types that would not normally be expected to go together” (p. 95).

Keywords: Board Member; Family Firm; Family Business; Private Equity; Organizational Identity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0911-3_15

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