过渡的家:泰北华商合与分的家庭策略与家族企业经营

Family in Transition:House Division Strategies and Family Business Management of Sino-Thai Business People in Northern Thailand

海外华人家族企业的巨大经济成就引来了世界的目光,其中家族企业如何成功接班传承成为学者们特别关注的话题。分家是家族企业传承过程中的关键,对于经营中小规模家族企业的海外华商家庭来说,分家既是其家庭生活的重要内容,也是家族企业经营和发展的重要策略。然而,针对华商家族企业的分家实践策略,特别是如何通过分家的具体实践使家庭生活与家族企业的经营、转型和传承相互适应的微观研究却相对较少。本文以泰北中产华商的中小型家族企业的分家为例,试图探讨在个体、家庭、企业、社会等多种因素的交织影响下,中产华商家庭如何在分家的实践策略中,通过分与合的实践策略,形成多元的过渡家庭形态,实现理想家庭与现实生活中个人选择、家庭关系和商业经营的平衡。

Great economic success of overseas Chinese family business has drawn attention from all over the world,with particular focus on how they pass on their family business.House division is the key to family business succession.For the overseas Chinese business people who run small and medium family enterprises,house division plays a significant role in their family life as well as family business management.However,there are few microscopic researches on the house division strategies of overseas Chinese business people,especially how house division makes family life and family business management,transformation and succession fit each other.Taking the house division of small and medium family enterprises of Sino-Thai business people in Northern Thailand as an example,this paper tries to discuss how they balance their ideal family life and personal choices,family relations and business management in real life through house division strategies.