傳承社會資本延續家族企業價值

Transfer Social Capital and Maintain the Value of Family Business

家族企業傳承是一件複雜且富有挑戰性的過程，而最大的挑戰在於是否能夠保留、沿用與增加家族現有的有形與無形資源。在此情況下，社會資本乃是家族成員經年累月所投資而形成的一種寶貴資源。在家族企業傳承過程中，若能成功地保留和增加社會資本，將對中小型家族企業的持續發展扮演著關鍵性角色。因此，在家族企業傳承過程中，交棒者如何將社會網絡資源順利轉移給接班人乃是至關重要。本文主要針對國內六家中小型家族企業進行個案訪談研究，並從個人視角來瞭解家族企業傳承時，其社交網絡轉移的實證見解。家族企業的社會資本常因企業負責人不同而有所變動。因此，家族企業在傳承過程中，交棒者和繼任者在家族企業的角色轉變，將會重大影響企業的社會資本。此外，本文還探討有關家族企業的社交網絡資源轉移之相關現象，例如「網絡更新效應」和「世代代溝效應」等，以提出總體研究命題，而這些因素都會影響家族企業傳承的時間和形式。經由實證，本研究認為社會資本確實是家族企業傳承能否成功關鍵因素之一，並左右傳承過程的時間長短與利害關係人的相應行為。

The success of the family business is a complex and challenging process. The biggest challenge is whether to retain, continue and increase social capital of the family. In this context, social capital is a valuable resource that family have invested in over time. During the process of success of family business, if it can successfully retain and increase social capital, it will keep on developing family business. Therefore, it is very important to transfer social network from predecessors to successors smoothly. We conduct interviews on 6 small and medium-sized family business members in Taiwan from individual perspective and understand the empirical insights of the social network transfer during the success of the family business. The social network of a family business often changes depending on who in charge of the family business is. Therefore, in the process of family business success, the change of family business owner will have a significant impact on the social capital of the enterprise. In addition, this paper explores the different modes of social capital transfer in family businesses, such as “network renewal effect” and “generation gap effect”, to establish an overall research framework, and these factors will affect the timing and form of family business success. Through empirical evidence, this study believes that social capital is indeed one of the key factors for family business succession.