试析家族企业低成本运作之优势

An Analysis of the Advantages of Family Enterprises Operating at Low Cost

家族企业有多方面的管理优势,特别在家族企业的发展初期表现更为明显。建立在血缘、亲缘基础上的组织结构,保证了企业管理的低成本运作;产权清晰、目标明确降低了企业的激励成本;家长集权制有利于降低决策、协调成本;关系式治理则节约了监督成本。成本降低的直接结果是大大提高了企业的竞争力,使家族企业成为有效率的经济组织。

Family enterprise has many advantages in management, especially in its early phase. The organizing structure of an enterprise based on blood ties enables business to operate at low managerial cost. Clear-cut property rights and definite goals help reduce cost of bonus and benefits. Patriarchal system serves to lower decision-making and coordinating cost. And a management team knitted together through blood ties makes it possible to cut down cost of overseeing. Costs as such coming down, as a result, sharpen the competitive edge of a family enterprise and push it on the track of an efficient economic entity.