Legitimation: Decide Without Deciding!

Arist von Schlippe (), Tom A. Rüsen () and Torsten Groth ()
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Arist von Schlippe: Witten/Herdecke University
Tom A. Rüsen: Witten/Herdecke University
Torsten Groth: Witten/Herdecke University

Chapter 6 in The Two Sides of the Business Family, 2021, pp 133-154 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter looks at how business families can achieve a sense of fairness in their decision-making. Given the contradictory systems of logic at work, ensuring legitimation is no easy task. Precisely because so much is decided in a paradox-friendly manner, it is vital for decisions to be legitimated, i.e. they are felt to be justified rather than arbitrary. One way of achieving this is to follow the advice that appears in the title of this chapter: decisions can be made to look as if they are not decisions at all but simply self-evident developments. The decision is taken without it being recognisable as such. In the course of this chapter, we will present strategies that we have found through our research to be intelligent forms of legitimation and, finally, suggest how business families can be differentiated according to their patterns of legitimation.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-60200-0_6

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