In the article Conflicts in Family Firms: The Good and the Bad, authors D’Lisa
McKee, Timothy M. Madden, Franz W. Kellermanns and Kimberly A. Eddleston make
the point that while managing the multitude of family relationships makes
conflict particularly pervasive in family firms, not all types of conflict are
inherently detrimental. Published in The SAGE Handbook of Family Business,
2014, the authors’ fundamental argument is that it’s simply not accurate to say
that mitigating any and all types of conflict is in the best interest of a firm.
Since...