Emotion significantly affects strategic decision-making by entrepreneurs in family business organisations. This paper proposes a cognitive framework of strategic decision-making that emphasises the importance of emotion, based on a micro-foundational perspective: that is, an integrated hierarchy of cognitive processes underlying entrepreneurs' strategic decision-making and the interactions with external affective events. Previous studies that used traditional behavioural methodologies are reviewed with reference to the proposed cognitive framework to highlight importance of understanding effect of emotion-cognition interactions on entrepreneurs’ strategic decision-making process. New techniques using biological, physiological, and neuroscientific tools are then introduced as complementary methods for this line of research. Finally, future research directions are discussed with a focus on implicit cognitive processing, complex emotions, and cognitive interventions.

情绪显着影响家族企业组织中企业家的战略决策。本文基于微观基础视角，提出了强调情感重要性的战略决策认知框架：即企业家战略决策及其与外部情感事件相互作用的认知过程的综合层次。参考所提出的认知框架回顾了以前使用传统行为方法论的研究，以强调情绪认知相互作用对企业家战略决策过程的理解作用的重要性。然后引入使用生物学、生理学和神经科学工具的新技术作为该研究领域的补充方法。最后，