家族企业的专利、商业秘密和业绩抱负

IF 10.5 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Journal of Business Research Pub Date : 2025-05-03 DOI:10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115429

Katrin Hussinger , Wunnam Basit Issah

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摘要

我们调查家族所有权是否与对专利或商业秘密的偏好有关。以标准普尔500强公司为样本，我们发现家族所有权与专利负相关，与商业秘密的使用正相关。我们进一步表明，这两种关系都受到低于期望水平的企业绩效的调节。这些结果可以用混合赌博行为代理框架来解释。当家族企业的表现低于其期望水平时，与当前的社会情感财富相比，预期的财务收益变得相对更重要，因此专利变得更多，商业秘密变得不那么有吸引力。

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Patents, trade secrets and performance aspirations in family firms

We investigate whether family ownership is associated with a preference for patents or trade secrets. Using a sample of S&P 500 firms, we show that family ownership is negatively associated with patenting and positively associated with the usage of trade secrets. We further show that both relationships are moderated by firm performance below the aspiration level. These results can be explained with a mixed gambles behavioral agency framework. When family firms perform below their aspiration level, prospective financial gains become relatively more important as compared to current socio-emotional wealth so that patents become more and trade secrets less attractive.

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Journal of Business Research BUSINESS-

CiteScore

20.30

自引率

10.60%

发文量

956

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