Our Expression to ‘Preserve a Trade’ Is a Contradiction in Itself; it Is Impossible to Keep a Business Alive by Maintaining it as it Is: An Interview with Prof. Li Xinchun
摘要
Li Xinchun, Professor and former Dean at Sun Yat-sen University’s School of Business, takes a wide-angled perspective here, which gives its due to the influence of history, culture, and also morality on the development and behavior of family firms across time and regions. Quoting the Chinese sociologist Fei Xiaotong, he captures the trajectories of family culture in different countries, in a way that may resonate, for some readers, with social theorist Max Weber.