Family business-owning couples: An EFT view into their unique conflict culture

Sharon M. Danes; Erin A. Morgan

doi:10.1023/B:COFT.0000037913.20921.0e

Family business-owning couples: An EFT view into their unique conflict culture

Sharon M. Danes, Erin A. Morgan

Family Social Science

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Abstract

This study expands the understanding of business-related tensions within business-owning couples through an interdisciplinary literature review, through a longitudinal data analysis, and through application of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to a case study. Business-owning husbands and wives in this study reported that conflicts related to work/family life balance and unfair distribution of resources (money, time, energy) between family and business systems create the greatest tensions. Low family functionality, wives' role dissatisfaction, transfer of resources from family to business, and husbands' identification of wives as major decision makers were all predictors of wives' higher tension levels. Husbands reported increased tension when wives worked more hours in the business. Three elements of EFT are applied to a family business couple.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	241-260
Number of pages	20
Journal	Contemporary Family Therapy
Volume	26
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1023/B:COFT.0000037913.20921.0e
State	Published - Sep 2004

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This paper reports results from the Cooperative Regional Research Project, NE-167 ‘‘Family Business Viability in Economically Vulnerable Communities,’’ partially supported by the Cooperative States Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); U.S. Department of Agriculture; the experiment stations at the University of Arkansas, University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of Illinois, Purdue University (Indiana), Iowa State University, University of Minnesota, Montana State University, University of Nebraska, Cornell University (New York), North Dakota State University, The Ohio State University, University of Rhode Island, Utah State University, University of Vermont, University of Wisconsin, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (for the University of Manitoba).

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Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
business-owning couples
couple conflict
family business conflict
family businesses

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