Análisis del concepto de familiness y sus determinantes

Abstract

El número de empresas familiares en la industria mundial es cada vez mayor y aunque el comportamiento de las empresas está caracterizado por ciertos lineamientos, existe un diferenciador importante entre las empresas familiares y las no familiares, que se enmarca en diferentes ámbitos y uno de los más interesantes es el desempeño financiero. La presente investigación nace a raíz de un problema en el que se plantea la inexistencia de información reciente sobre las empresas familiares y la dimensión que hace diferente a una empresa familiar de una no familiar, que es llamada familiness y representa la riqueza socioemocional que le agrega la familia a su empresa. Este concepto está determinado, por constructos como la participación y la esencia. Así, el objetivo general de este trabajo es analizar la relación existente entre el desempeño financiero y el familiness, desde la participación y la esencia, en las empresas familiares.

The number of family businesses in the global industry is growing and although the behavior of companies is characterized by certain guidelines, there is an important differentiator between family and non-family businesses, which is framed in different areas and one of the most interesting is financial performance. The present investigation was born as a result of a problem in which the inexistence of recent information on family businesses and the dimension that makes a family business of a nonfamily, which is called familiness and represents the socio-emotional wealth that adds the family to your company. This concept is determined by constructs such as participation and essence. Thus, the general objective of this work is to analyze the relationship between financial performance and family, from participation and essence, in family businesses. To develop this objective, after all a literature review process, the variables that are part of the essence and participation constructs were determined and their impact on financial performance was measured, through a model of structural equations . Which in the results showed that the involvement of the family in the company has a positive relationship with the financial performance of the companies and will make it improve.