Strategic Innovation and the Administrative Heritage of East Asian Family Business Groups |
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Authors: | Michael Carney Eric Gedajlovic |
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Institution: | (1) John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;(2) School of International Business, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia;(3) School of Business, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA |
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Abstract: | Using the case of Chinese Family Business Groups (FBGs) in East Asia, this paper examines the relationship between the strategic behaviour exhibited by an organisational form and it's administrative heritage. To do so, we trace the origins of the strategic behaviour that scholars commonly attribute to FBGs to the environmental conditions prevailing during their emergence in the turbulent post-Colonial era of East Asia. We explain how fundamental changes brought about by shifts in the post-Cold war environment of East Asia have confronted FBGs with new opportunities and organising imperatives which their administrative heritages have left them ill-equipped to deal with. In concluding, we explain how the lack of fit between a dominant organisational form and contemporaneous environmental conditions may have significant implications for the organisations themselves and the economies whose landscapes they dominate. |
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Keywords: | path dependence administrative heritage Family Business Groups East Asia financial crisis corporate governance |
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