The Research On Networked Growth Path Of Family Firm

Family firms, as a special type of enterprise organization, exist in many countries commonly. Now, most of the private enterprises in china are family firms and adopt the family administration mode. The lives of family firms in china are very short, compared with that of family firms in the western countries. This phenomenon has attracted lots of attention of the scholars and the research has reaped rich achievements. Generally speaking, the research emphasized on the internal resources and abilities in the enterprises, but neglected the effects of the external network of the enterprises. So it is very necessary to research on the motive factors and growth mechanism for the networked growth of family firms.This research mainly uses the methods of qualitative analysis and normative analysis and combines the theories of the economy, management and sociology. By strict logic reasoning, this research proposes a path model of the networked growth of family firms. The driving forces of building network of the family firms come from two aspects: the enterprise level and the environment outside, which contains resources demand, strategic intention and key invents. Trust, the basis for the normal running of the family firms' network, is the key factor for the family firms to obtain necessary resources and keep growing. The building of trust is a complex progress, which refers to many factors. Family trust and general family trust are the main existing types of trust in China. The specific paths of networked growth of family firms are: the industrial cluster, the enterprise group, the virtual organization and the strategic alliance. The path of networked growth can promote the knowledge sharing in the network, while the continuous accumulation and slack of the core knowledge is the most basic impetuses for the enterprise growth.