Editors' Notes
Abstract
EDITORS' NOTES THIS ISSUE brings together articles of particular interest to those readers w h o work in, o w n or m a n a g e family firms a n d those w h o consult to family firms. T h e first paper, by W. G i b b Dyer, Jr., focuses o n the dilemmas that arise w h e n professionalizing a family business. T h e early literature considered professionalizing to m e a n the i n c o r p o r a t i o n of outsiders w h o could b r i n g objectivity a n d rationality to the e m o t i o n a l world of the family business. Underlying this a p p r o a c h was the n o t i o n that the best way of m a n a g i n g a family enterprise was to get the family o u t of m a n a g e m e n t . Dyer takes a different tack. H i s view is that the term professionalism does n o