Being Aware of Mental Models

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 7 in The Two Sides of the Business Family, 2021, pp 155-179 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter adds to our observations a perspective originally developed by a group of Spanish researchers. Their approach describes the different underlying family philosophies of entrepreneurship and corporate management. The question of how a business family views itself and its relationship with its business is referred as the mental model. The mental model theory sees the human mind as a kind of “model-building device”, and the mental patterns or concepts of meaning that people establish coin their way of looking at the world (Boyd, 1976; Johnson-Laird, 1983). According to this theory, the mental model of a business owner or a shared mental model (Denzau & North, 1994) of a business family has a far-reaching impact on how the company is run and how the business family is organised.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-60200-0_7

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