The main aim of this editorial is to kick off our BEER Spotlight Editorial Series, where we will discuss emerging topics that we would like to be more featured in our journal. The idea is to shed light on hot topics related to business ethics, the environment and responsibility, that we believe deserve closer attention. We hope these editorials will serve as eye openers and stimulators for further knowledge generation within the domain of our journal.

This first issue of the BEER Spotlight Editorial Series will focus on family business research in the BEER context. While we are grateful for the high-quality family business scholarship published thus far in BEER, we want to stimulate more discussion around the topic, and invite scholars to view BEER as a leading journal that is willing and able to provide a high-quality rigorous review process that contributes to strengthening the legitimacy of the family business field, particularly in terms of their ethical practices and internal and external social responsibility.

Let us start with a couple of questions that we believe should be further addressed: How do various family businesses, with different governance structures, at various generational stages, with different family and financial resources, and with variegated family and business values practice ethics? And, how do they view their social responsibility in the workplace and towards the environment? As the family business field moves from adolescence to maturity (Payne, 2018; Samara, 2021), we are keen to open doors for pushing forward the scholarship that addresses the important topic of ethical and socially responsible practices of family firms. We believe this is a strategically important topic, which is gaining traction, and we hope to see more progress and contributions within this sphere in BEER over the coming period.

Family businesses have historically been, and continue to be, the most dominant organizational form around the world (La Porta et al., 1999). It has been widely acknowledged that the main feature that differentiates family businesses from their non-family counterparts is the impact that family involvement in ownership, management and control has on business operations. Thus far, the most commonly used theoretical framework that explains the family effect on business strategies and operations is the desire of controlling family owners to pursue socioemotional wealth (SEW). SEW is defined as the affective endowments that family members gain from their involvement in the business and that drive their decision making (Gómez-Mejía et al., 2007).

At the same time, recent advances in the literature call for a more nuanced view and application of SEW. In this context, we would like to stress that a more refined investigation of SEW and how it affects family business ethical and social outcomes is necessary. Indeed, SEW is a multidimensional construct (Debicki et al., 2016; Samara et al., 2021). Berrone et al. (2012) decompose the SEW construct into five dimensions, namely (1) a desire to preserve family control and influence; (2) identification of family members with the firm; (3) binding social ties; (4) emotional attachment of family members; and (5) renewal of family bonds to the firm through dynastic succession. While these five dimensions may co-exist (Berrone et al., 2012), recent advances in the literature indicate that some dimensions can be more prominent than others (Debicki et al., 2016; Samara et al., 2021) and different configurations will shape decision-making processes within family businesses. Hence, it becomes critical to explore which family firms prioritize certain SEW dimensions and how these affect their ethical practices and social responsibilities both in the workplace and towards the environment. In short, more work needs to be done to unveil which SEW dimensions may reveal a bright side to SEW and which dimensions may reveal its dark side (Samara et al., 2018).

Furthermore, we see an opportunity for the business ethics and CSR literature to contribute to the family business literature. Indeed, there is an opportunity to explore how firms' ethical and CSR practices impact the prominence of SEW dimensions. In other words, we need to get further clarity into the direction of the relationship between various SEW dimensions and ethical and socially responsible practices in family firms. For example, if a family firm already practices ethical behaviour in its workplace, can this reinforce binding social ties and ease the concerns of next generation family members in preserving influence and control within family hands? Likewise, there are ample opportunities for the business ethics literature to inform the family business literature. For example, Parada et al. (2019) investigate how Aristotelian values and virtues influence family business behaviour across a wide range of practices. Another example can be drawn from the work of Garriga and Mele (2004) who define the four ethical motivations that can drive firms' ethical practices (Instrumental, Ethical, Political, Integrative). Here, there is an opportunity to dig deeper into the moral or financial motivations driving family businesses to act ethically or practice social responsibility. These are only a few examples suggesting that more work coming from the business ethics literature can enrich the family business field.

All of these discussions mentioned above, can help to advance the family business field in terms of ethics and social responsibility. Thus, we invite authors from the family business and ethics/social responsibility fields to think critically and make contributions in this regard. Below, we define business ethics and social responsibility in the family business as a point of demarcation for future studies interested in exploring the various paradoxes described above.

这篇社论的主要目的是启动我们的 BEER Spotlight 社论系列，我们将在其中讨论我们希望在我们的期刊中更多展示的新兴主题。这个想法是为了阐明与商业道德、环境和责任相关的热门话题，我们认为这些话题值得密切关注。我们希望这些社论能够为我们期刊领域内的进一步知识生成提供大开眼界和刺激因素。

BEER Spotlight 社论系列的第一期将重点关注啤酒背景下的家族企业研究。虽然我们感谢 BEER 迄今为止发表的高质量家族企业奖学金，但我们希望激发围绕该主题的更多讨论，并邀请学者将 BEER 视为愿意并能够提供高质量严谨的领先期刊有助于加强家族企业领域合法性的审查过程，特别是在其道德实践和内部和外部社会责任方面。

让我们从几个我们认为应该进一步解决的问题开始：具有不同治理结构、处于不同代际阶段、具有不同家庭和财务资源以及具有多样化的家庭和商业价值观的各种家族企业如何实践道德规范？而且，他们如何看待自己在工作场所和环境中的社会责任？随着家族企业领域从青春期走向成熟（Payne，  2018 年；Samara，  2021 年）)，我们热衷于为推动解决家族企业道德和社会责任实践这一重要主题的学术研究敞开大门。我们认为这是一个具有重要战略意义的话题，正在获得关注，我们希望在未来一段时间内看到 BEER 在这一领域取得更多进展和贡献。

家族企业在历史上一直是，并将继续是世界上最主要的组织形式（La Porta et al.,  1999）。众所周知，家族企业与非家族企业的主要区别在于家族参与所有权、管理和控制对企业运营的影响。迄今为止，解释家族对商业战略和运营影响的最常用理论框架是控制家族所有者追求社会情感财富（SEW）的愿望。SEW 被定义为家庭成员从参与企业中获得的情感禀赋，并推动他们的决策（Gómez-Mejía 等人，  2007 年）。

同时，文献中的最新进展要求对 SEW 进行更细致的看法和应用。在这种情况下，我们想强调，有必要对 SEW 及其如何影响家族企业的道德和社会结果进行更精细的调查。事实上，SEW 是一个多维结构（Debicki 等人，  2016 年；Samara 等人，  2021 年）。Berrone 等人。（2012）将SEW结构分解为五个维度，即（1）保持家庭控制和影响的愿望；(2) 家族成员在事务所的身份证明；(3) 具有约束力的社会关系；（四）家庭成员的情感依恋；(5) 通过王朝继承与公司续签家族纽带。虽然这五个维度可能共存（Berrone et al.,  2012)，最近的文献进展表明，某些维度可能比其他维度更突出（Debicki 等人，  2016 年；Samara 等人，  2021 年），不同的配置将影响家族企业的决策过程。因此，探索哪些家族企业优先考虑某些 SEW 维度以及这些维度如何影响他们在工作场所和环境中的道德实践和社会责任变得至关重要。简而言之，需要做更多的工作来揭示哪些 SEW 维度可能揭示 SEW 的光明面，哪些维度可能揭示其黑暗面（Samara 等人，  2018 年）。

此外，我们看到商业道德和企业社会责任文献为家族企业文献做出贡献的机会。事实上，有机会探索公司的道德和企业社会责任实践如何影响 SEW 维度的重要性。换言之，我们需要进一步明确 SEW 各个维度与家族企业的道德和社会责任实践之间的关系方向。例如，如果一家家族企业已经在其工作场所实践了道德行为，这是否可以加强具有约束力的社会联系并减轻下一代家族成员在保持家族手中的影响力和控制权方面的担忧？同样，商业道德文献也有充足的机会为家族企业文献提供信息。例如，帕拉达等人。( 2019) 调查亚里士多德的价值观和美德如何在广泛的实践中影响家族企业的行为。另一个例子可以从 Garriga 和 Mele ( 2004 ) 的工作中得出，他们定义了可以推动公司道德实践的四种道德动机（工具性、道德性、政治性、综合性）。在这里，有机会更深入地挖掘推动家族企业以道德行为或履行社会责任的道德或经济动机。这些只是少数几个例子，表明更多来自商业道德文献的工作可以丰富家族企业领域。

上述所有这些讨论都有助于在道德和社会责任方面推动家族企业领域的发展。因此，我们邀请来自家族企业和道德/社会责任领域的作者进行批判性思考并在这方面做出贡献。下面，我们将家族企业中的商业道德和社会责任定义为未来有兴趣探索上述各种悖论的研究的分界点。