Research often assumes that a controlling family’s social bonds contributes to superior firm performance. However, there is little theory to address these relationships and findings are often mixed. Here, we integrate resource-based and need-to-belong theories to address these issues, introducing family business potency as a key mediating variable between family cohesion, participative strategy processes, and firm performance in 109 family firms. Altogether, our study answers ongoing theoretical calls for more need-based psychological research in family firms, introduces family business potency to the literature, and contributes to research on family firm heterogeneity. Implications for future research and practice are also discussed.

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揭开机器中的社会幽灵：归属感和家族企业潜力如何影响家族企业绩效

研究通常假设控制家庭的社会纽带有助于提高公司绩效。然而，几乎没有理论可以解决这些关系，而且研究结果往往喜忧参半。在这里，我们整合了基于资源的理论和归属感理论来解决这些问题，将家族企业效力作为 109 家家族企业的家族凝聚力、参与战略过程和公司绩效之间的关键中介变量。总而言之，我们的研究回应了正在进行的关于家族企业更多基于需求的心理学研究的理论呼吁，将家族企业的潜力引入文献，并有助于家族企业异质性的研究。还讨论了对未来研究和实践的影响。