Cognitive cohesion, family commitment and organizational creativity

Abstract

Although issues about innovation and entrepreneurship have drawn growing attention recently in family business research field, organizational creativity, which could be a significant and supportive factor in the above issue, seems still ignored to a large extent. This paper focus on the link among family features, family’s involvement in firm and organizational creativity, as well as the moderate effect of intergenerational relationship. The finding shows that: ( 1) family cohesion enhances family’s cultural commitment on firm; ( 2) family’s cultural commitment is positively related with creativity; (3) family’s cultural commitment play a mediate role in the above mechanism; (4) intergenerational attention strengthen the positive relationship between family cohesion and family’s cultural commitment, but intergenerational authority does not play a significant role. These findings suggest that ( 1) family features are important antecedents in family business research; ( 2) both family and firm factors should be taken into consideration in intergenerational succession process, and positive climate in family is meaningful for family firm’s prosperity.