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Conflitos em empresas familiares-clássico

Conflicts That Plague Family Businesses
Harry Levinson

MARCH–APRIL 1971
Harvard Business Review

In U.S. business, the most successful executives are often men who have built their own companies. Ironically, their very success frequently brings to them and members of their families personal problems of an intensity rarely encountered by professional managers.

And these problems make family businesses possibly the most difficult to operate.1
It is obvious common sense that when managerial decisions are influenced by feelings about and responsibilities toward relatives in the business, when nepotism exerts a negative influence, and when a company is run more to honor a family tradition than for its own needs and purposes, there is likely to be trouble.

However, the problems of family businesses go considerably deeper than these issues.