Family ties: un antecedent of next generation members' knowledge adquisition, behaviour and self esteem

• Autores: Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodríguez
• Directores de la Tesis: Josep Tápies (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universidad de Navarra ( España ) en 2008
• Idioma: español
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Pablo Emilio Garcia Ruiz (presid.), Yi-tin Lee (secret.), Miguel Ángel Canela (voc.), Salvador Rus (voc.), Fernando Casado (voc.)
• Materias:
  • Ciencias económicas
    • Organización y dirección de empresas
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• Resumen

  • In the first essay, "Family Ties and Emotions: A Missing Piece in the Knowledge Transfer Puzzle?", I explore how the strength of family ties and emotions influence NGMs' knowledge acquisition, bringing into stage a knowledge transfer model for family firms. By examining the relationships that exit among and between family business members, some sense can be made of what is involved in the knowledge transfer process of cultural-traditional and technical aspects within the family enterprise. Family-NGM (individuals) and NGM-Family Business (individual-business) relationships deserve deep analysis due to their uniqueness and importance when dealing with succession planning, next generation training, knowledge transfer from the generation-in-charge to the next generation as well as with intangibles concerned with the individual self-concept, identity and attitudes. The quality of the relationship between family members in general in crucial. Communications channels that foster improving mutual understanding, among generations and across family and key non-family members, are important whenever growth and survival in the prime goal in the family business strategy. The relationship between the NGM and the business key whenever attitudes and feelings of self-identity are taken into consideration. NGMs' behavior is a consequence of psychological and social processes -i.e. commitment- which are highly affected by family connections, bonds, traditions and cultural perspectives, In the second essay, "To Join or Not to Join the Family Business? Next Generation Members' (NGMs) Entry Tendency", I look into the drivers--centrality (conscious desire) and salience (unconscious desire)--that impact NGMs' decision to join or not the family enterprise; as well a if these drivers or desires are related to the NGMs' commitment to the NGM identity/role and/or to family ties and traditions. We found out that when NGMs feel a strong association with their business, with their family, and with the role they play (NGMs' identity), they are more likely to understand and discover ways for them to adjust and participate in the business, being therefore more predisposed to join the family firm. However, when future successors have not the desire, motivation or interest in strengthening their association to the business or committing to their role-identity as family business members -which is positively affected by family ties and traditions-, their intended and actual behavior will vary according to their judgement and interests. In this second paper, I extend -following Stets and Burke's (2000) model- a fresh stream of research regarding psychological centrality and identity salience as complementary psychological concepts that predict behavior. I found out that salience of being a family business NGM (unconscious desire) is a powerful antecedent of the NGM intended behavior, while psychological centrality (conscious desire) of being a NGM is much more related to actual deeds (being active in the business). However, both are significant predictors of next generation members' conduct regarding joining or not the family enterprise. In the third essay, "For Aging Next Generation Members Working in the Family Firm, Psychological Ownership Is Not Enough", I explore the relationship between the strength of family ties and the level of psychological ownership NGMs working in the family firm have, as well as how this is connected with the NGMs' perceived level of self-esteem along time. Interesting tendencies regarding psychological and legal ownership where detected, suggesting that NGMs' psychological ownership contributes negatively to their self-esteem as time passes by and NGMs continue working in the family firm without being entitled with real ownership. Is addition, these findings also put forward the idea that NGMs' perceived level of self-esteem is indirectly and negatively influenced by the NGM age (life stage), while directly and positively shap.