Instrumental Love: Political Marriage and the Performance of Family Firms

Feifei Lu, Xu Huang, Erica Xu, Xiaogang He

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    Abstract

    This study proposed a unique form of family-government relationship established via marriage: political marriage. Using a sample of 164 marriage events of family firm members collected in China, we found that political marriage was positively related to family firm performance beyond the effects of traditional political ties. Furthermore, we found that length of marriage positively moderated the relationship between political marriage and firm performance. There was a three-way interactive effect of political marriage, length of marriage, marital quality on firm performance in such a way that the positive effect of political marriage was the strongest when length of marriage was long and marital quality was low.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationAcademy of Management Proceedings 2016
    EditorsSonia Taneja
    PublisherAcademy of Management
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2016
    Event76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2016: Making Organizations Meaningful - Anaheim, United States
    Duration: 5 Aug 20169 Aug 2016
    https://aom.org/events/annual-meeting/past-annual-meetings/2016-making-organizations-meaningful (Conference website)
    https://journals.aom.org/toc/amproc/2016/1 (Conference proceedings)
    http://my.aom.org/ProgramDocs/2016/pdf/AOM_2016_Annual_Meeting_Program.pdf

    Publication series

    NameAcademy of Management Proceedings
    Number1
    Volume2016
    ISSN (Print)0065-0668
    ISSN (Electronic)2151-6561

    Conference

    Conference76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2016
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityAnaheim
    Period5/08/169/08/16
    Internet address

    User-Defined Keywords

    • Family firm performance
    • Self-verification theory
    • Social captial theory

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