33(2) 2020), the authors advocate using literature and literary studies as one method of learning about family business. Gardner and published in Family Business Review(Vol. In a recent editorial, "Literature, Fiction, and the Family Business," written by Mattias Nordqvist and William B. For example, statistics about rates of failure for family business succession can reach us intellectually, but stories about family business failures can reach us emotionally, as well as intellectually, and can help us better understand the causes and consequences of these events. Stories can provide and communicate insights about the human experience in a way that is different from empirical research. Rather, the novel illustrates how every person's life in the family is one grand project through which they can extend, change, or replace the family legacy for themselves and their children. In particular, it exposes the mistake we make when we think of individual family members as passive beneficiaries of family legacy. When I read it recently, it profoundly affected me and led me to important realizations about how families work. The novel "Kristin Lavransdatter" by Sigrid Undset is a compelling work about family life and legacy.
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