Purpose

The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the roots of family firms' competitive advantages by defining and testing the familiness learning mechanisms that emerge from the interaction between family and firm. Because family members are economically, emotionally and socially attached to the firm, family firms are expected to be able to develop unique and difficult to imitate learning mechanisms related to family firm value creation.

Design/methodology/approach

This study operationalizes and tests the concept of the familiness learning mechanism using a sample of nonlisted Spanish family firms. The sample is analyzed using the structural equation modeling method.

Findings

Results show that family firms' ability to accumulate internal and external knowledge, integrate social knowledge, as well as create and retain socioemotional knowledge forms the concept of the familiness learning mechanism, and the authors show what implications it might have for family firm value creation.

Originality/value

By using the dynamic capabilities approach, this article highlights the importance of the knowledge and learning derived from family involvement in the firm. The creation of learning mechanisms occurs because of the close relationships between family members and their simultaneous participation in the family and in the company systems, which creates a unique context wherein knowledge and learning emerge in an idiosyncratic manner.

中文翻译：

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家族企业的战略管理。家庭学习机制的缺失概念

目的

本文的目的是通过定义和测试从家族与企业之间的互动中产生的家族学习机制，全面了解家族企业竞争优势的根源。由于家族成员在经济上、情感上和社会上都依附于企业，家族企业有望发展出与家族企业价值创造相关的独特且难以模仿的学习机制。

设计/方法/方法

本研究使用未上市的西班牙家族企业样本，对家族学习机制的概念进行操作和测试。使用结构方程建模方法分析样品。

发现

结果表明，家族企业积累内部和外部知识、整合社会知识以及创造和保留社会情感知识的能力形成了家族学习机制的概念，作者展示了它对家族企业价值创造的影响。

原创性/价值

通过使用动态能力方法，本文强调了从家族参与公司中获得的知识和学习的重要性。学习机制的产生是因为家庭成员之间的密切关系以及他们同时参与家庭和公司系统，这创造了一个独特的环境，其中知识和学习以一种特殊的方式出现。