Fotografia de família: histórias de poder em organizações familiares

Abstract

This work approaches the power relations observed in the context of Family Business. The research seeks to understand the elements related to power, constitutive of the interest between the subject himself and the organization, which characterizes ones remaining in thefamily business. Thus, a study has been conducted with people pointed as heirs in the family business. From their background we sought to understand the links established among those who remained in the family business and those who were purged away, through the nonlinkage understanding. The results have shown that remaining / subjectiveness or leaving / purging away of the subject himself does not only relate to organizational power but also that of the household environment. Amongst those who subjected themselves to the organizational dynamics of both formal working conditions and subjective linkage are highlighted. The latter constitutes mostly as family power relations which grant the subject himself the submissionand conformity of the working lifestyle in the organization. Amongst those who did not remain in the company, those purged away, the non-linking reasons are similar to those mentioned previously, considering the leaving itself is marked by household environmental conflicts. The power relations observed in both non-linkage and linkage present themselves in its various ways of both permanent and discreet forms in the social dynamics, standardizing and breaking the subjects themselves and their subjectivities.