A Study On Second-Generation Entrepreneur Cultivation Of Family Business Based On Identity Construction

Family businesses have played an important role in China's national economy,technological innovation,labor and employment.Its sustained and healthy development not only affects the well-being of many stakeholders,but also the economic and social progress of the entire region.At present,the entrepreneurs of the Chinese family business are facing the dual pressures brought by China's economic transformation and intergenerational transmission.Numerous practices have shown that the inheritance of family business entrepreneurship is the core to achieve long-term sustainable development between generations.Therefore,under the mainstream inheritance mode of the family business of “family inheritance”,the cultivation of entrepreneurial willingness and entrepreneurial ability of the children in succession has become the top priority in the study of inheritance.As the "rooted explanation" of individual will and behavior,identity theory provides a theoretical basis and research ideas for exploring the cultivation of second-generation entrepreneurs in family enterprises.Therefore,this study takes the children of the family business who are in or have completed the succession as the research object,and explores how the family succession of the family business grows from the identity level to the second generation of entrepreneurs and its internal mechanism.Specifically,through the investigation of six family enterprises that are in different stages of inheritance,through in-depth interviews to understand the changes in the mentality and status of children's succession under different cultivation methods,based on the research principles of grounded theory,establish a family business to create a second generation of entrepreneurs.The identity construction process model and its mechanism model,and provide more reliable basis and recommendations for the family business to create the second generation of entrepreneurs.There are two possible theoretical contributions to this study.On the one hand,in the field of family business research,this study reveals the root cause of the growth of family business successors to the second generation of entrepreneurs from the perspective of identity construction,and provides theoretical explanation for the cultivation of the second generation of entrepreneurs in family business.The research results promote the development of family business inheritance research to a certain extent;on the other hand,in the field of identity research,the unique situation of family business and the characteristics of Chinese local society provide an opportunity to deeply understand the mechanism of identity construction,and the research conclusions will Provide a more insightful and local complement to identity theory.The practical contribution of this research is to provide a theoretical basis and practical suggestions for the family entrepreneurs to cultivate the entrepreneurial willingness and entrepreneurial ability of the successor children,which will help the family enterprises to achieve sustainable development.