Too close and too rigid: Applying the circumplex model of family systems to first-generation family firms

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

Volumn 38, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages 105-116

  Michael Tsabari, Nava ^a   Lavee, Yoav ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027922890     PISSN: 0194472X     EISSN: 17520606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2012.00302.x     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Birley, S. (2001). Owner-manager attitudes to family and business issues: A 16 country study. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 26(2), 63-76.
2. Bowen, M. (1978). Family therapy in clinical practice. New York, NY: Jason Aronson.
3. Chrisman, J. J., Chua, J. H., & Sharma, P. (2003). Current trends and future directions in family business management studies: Toward a theory of the family firm. Coleman Foundation White Paper Series. Available at <>.
4. Chua, J. H., Chrisman, J. J., & Steier, L. P. (2003). Extending the theoretical horizons of family business research. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 27(4), 331-338.
5. Denison, D., Leif, C., & Ward, J. L. (2004). Culture in family-owned enterprises: Recognizing and leveraging unique strengths. Family Business Review, 17(1), 61-70.
6. Distelberg, B. D., & Sorenson, R. L. (2009). Updating systems concepts in family business: A focus on values, resource flows, and adaptability. Family Business Review, 22, 65-81.
7. Dyer, W. G. (1986). Cultural change in family firms. San Francisco and London: Jossy-Bass.
8. Dyer, W. G. (2003). The family: The missing variable in organizational research. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 27(4), 401-416.
9. Dyer, W. G. (2006). Examining the "family effect" on firm performance. Family Business Review, 19(4), 253-273.
10. Ensley, M. D., & Pearson, A. W. (2005). An exploratory comparison of the behavioral dynamics of top management teams in family and nonfamily new ventures: Cohesion, conflict, potency, and consensus. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 29(3), 267-284.
11. Fleming, Q. J. (2000). Keep the family baggage out of the family business: Avoid the seven deadly sins that destroy the family business. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
12. Francis, A. E. (1999). The daughter also rises: How women overcome obstacles and advance in the family-owned business. San Francisco, CA: Rudi.
13. Gersick, K. E., Davis, J. A., Hampton, M. M., & Lansberg, I. (1997). Generation to generation: Life cycles of the family business. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
14. Gibbon, A., & Hadekel, P. (1990). Steinberg: The breakup of a family empire. ON, Canada: MacMillan.
15. Gomez-Betancourt, G. (2002). Typologies of family business: A conceptual framework based on trust and strategic management. Paper presented at the F.B.N. Annual World Conference.
16. Kaye, K. (1996). When the family business is a sickness. Family Business Review, 9(4), 347-368.
17. Kepner, E. (1983). The family and the firm: A coevolutionary perspective. Organizational Dynamics, 12(1), 57-70.
18. Kets de Vries, M. F. R. (1996). The dynamics of family controlled firms: The good and the bad news. In C. E. Aronoff, J. H. Astrachan & J. L. Ward (Eds), Family business sourcebook, vol 1 (pp. 312-323). Marietta, GA: Business Owner Resources.
19. Kets de Vries, M. F. R., Carlock, R. S., & Florent-Treacy, E. (2007). Family business on the couch: A psychological perspective. The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons.
20. Labaki, R., Michael-Tsabari, N., & Zachary, K. R. (2011). Exploring the emotional nexus in cogent family business archetypes. Paper presented at IFERA, Palermo, Sicily.
21. Lansberg, I. (1999). Succeeding generations: Realizing the dream of families in business. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
22. Lavee, Y., & Olson, D.H. (1991). Family types and response to stress. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 53, 786-798.
23. Lee, J. (2006). Family firm performance: Further evidence. Family Business Review, 19(2), 103-114.
24. Miller, N. J., Fitzgerald, M. A., Winter, M., & Paul, J. (1999). Exploring the overlap of family and business demands: Household and family business managers' adjustment strategies. Family Business Review, 12(3), 253-268.
25. Miller, D., Steier, L. P., & Le-Breton-Miller, I. (2003). Lost in time: Intergenerational succession, change, and failure in family business. Journal of Business Venturing, 18, 513-531.
26. Minuchin, S. (1974). Families and family therapy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
27. Nordqvist, M. (2005). Familiness in top management teams: Commentary on Ensley and Pearson's "An exploratory comparison of the behavioral dynamics of top management teams in family and nonfamily new ventures: Cohesion, conflict, potency, and consensus". Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 29(3), 285-291.
28. Olson, D. H. (1988). Family assessment and intervention: The circumplex model of family systems. Journal of Psychotherapy & the Family, 4(1-2), 7-49.
29. Olson, D. H. (2000). Circumplex model of marital and family systems. Journal of Family Therapy, 22, 144-167.
30. Olson, D. H. (2011). FACES IV and the Circumplex model: Validation study. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 37, 64-80.
31. Olson, D. H., & Gorall, D. M. (2003). Circumplex model of marital and family systems. In F. Walsh (Ed), Normal family processes: Growing diversity and complexity, 3rd edn (pp. 514-548). New York, NY: Guilford.
32. Olson, D.H., Gorall, D., & Tiesel, J. (2002). Family inventories package. Minneapolis, MN: Life Innovations.
33. Olson, D.H., & Lavee, Y. (1989). Family systems and family stress: A family life cycle perspective. In K. Kreppner & R. M. Lerner (Eds), Family systems and life-span development (pp. 165-195). Hillside, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.
34. Olson, D.H., Lavee, Y., & McCubbin, H.I. (1988). Types of families and family response to stress across the family life cycle. In J. Aldous & D.M. Klein (Eds), Social stress and family development (pp. 16-43). New York, NY: Guilford.
35. Olson, D. H., Sprenkle, D. H., & Russell, C. (1979). Circumplex model of marital and family systems: I. Cohabitation and adaptability dimensions, family types, and clinical applications. Family Process, 18, 3-28.
36. Olson, D.H., & Wilson, M. (1985). Family satisfaction. In D. H. Olson, H. I. McCubbin, H. Barnes, A. Larsen, M. Muxen & M. Wilson, (Eds), Family inventories: Inventorie used in a national survey of families across the family life cycle (pp. 43-50). St. Paul, MN: Family Social Science, University of Minnesota.
37. Rogoff, E. G., & Heck, R. K. Z. (2003). Evolving research in entrepreneurship and family business: Recognizing family as the oxygen that feeds the fire of entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing, 18(5), 559-566.
38. Rothstein, J. (1992). Don't judge a book by its cover: A reconsideration of eight assumptions about Jewish family businesses. Family Business Review, 5(4), 397-411.
39. Sharma, P. (2004). An overview of the field of family business studies: Current status and directions for the future. Family Business Review, 17(1), 1-36.
40. Sharma, P., Chrisman, J. J., & Chua, J. H. (1997). Strategic management of the family business: Past research and future challenges. Family Business Review, 10(1), 1-35.
41. Sten, J. (2007). What is a business family? Electronic Journal of Family Business Studies, 1(2), 168-185.
42. Tagiuri, R., & Davis, J. (1996). Bivalent attributes of the family firm. Family Business Review, 9(2), 199-208.
43. Uhlaner, L. M. (2006). Business family as a team: Underlying force for sustained competitive advantage. In P. Z. Poutziouris, K. X. Smyrnios & S. B. Klein (Eds), Handbook of research on family business (pp. 125-144). Cheltenham Glos, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
44. Villalonga, B., & Amit, R. (2006). How do family ownership, control and management affect firm value? Journal of Financial Economics, 80, 385-417.
45. Ward, J. L. (1987). Keeping the family business healthy. San Francisco, CA: Jossy-Bass.
46. Westhead, P., & Howorth, C. (2007). 'Types' of private family firms: An exploratory conceptual and empirical analysis. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 19, 405-431.
47. Winter, M., Fitzgerald, M. A., Heck, R. K. Z., Haynes, G. W., & Danes, S. M. (1998). Revisiting the study of family businesses: Methodological challenges, dilemmas and alternative approaches. Family Business Review, 11(3), 239-252.
48. Zody, Z., Sprenkle, D., MacDermid, S., & Schrank, H. (2006). Boundaries and the functioning of family and business systems. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 27, 185-206.