%0 Journal Article %T Control in family businesses Control en la empresa familiar %A Luis Cisneros %A Guillermo Ram赤rez %A Arturo Hern芍ndez %J AD-minister %D 2011 %I Escuela de Administraci車n Universidad EAFIT %X Family businesses are organizations of enormous complexity that have recently become an object of study of disciplines like Management, Sociology, Psychology and Anthropology. These center their attention on the succession, their governing forms, management styles and organizational culture, among others. However, the control is an essential topic to be included in the debate because of its relation with the perpetuity of this kind of organizations. This article aims to reflect first on how companies adopt formal results-oriented control mechanisms and, the important role that the family plays in the development of informal kind of control that integrates a system of shared values and beliefs. Las empresas familiares son organizaciones de enorme complejidad que recientementese han convertido en objeto de estudio de diversas disciplinas, como la Administraci車n,Sociolog赤a, Psicolog赤a y Antropolog赤a. Estas centran su atenci車n en la sucesi車n, susformas de gobierno, los estilos de gesti車n y la cultura empresarial, entre otros aspectos.No obstante, es necesario incluir en el debate un tema esencial para la perennidad deeste tipo de firmas: el control. En el presente texto se reflexiona sobre la manera comolas compa 赤as adoptan mecanismos formales de control orientados hacia los resultados;tambi谷n sobre el importante papel de la familia en el desarrollo de controles de car芍cterinformal, con un sistema compartido de valores y creencias. %K Family Business %K Succession %K Governing %K Management %K Control. %U http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/administer/article/view/814