Abstract The core driving force of sustainable growth lies in “people”. The “family culture” in our family business seriously restricts employees’ initiative and the sustainable growth of enterprises. Based on the analysis of three-level culture theory, the enterprise culture of family businesses in China usually has only the contents of surface and middle layers, the core layer assumption is missing, therefore it doesn’t shake the basic assumptions of the “family culture” following the national culture. And, leadership behavior with “family culture” characteristics is an important manifestation of “family culture”. The stronger the “family culture” features is, there would be more detrimental to the incentives of employees’ initiative, and greater destructive power of sustainable growth of enterprises.
QI Shanhong,LI Ya’nan. An Empirical Study on the Destructive Power of Family Culture to the Sustainable Growth of Family Business[J]. Chinese Journal of Management, 2017, 14(8): 1143-.
