FAMÍLIA EMPRESÁRIA NO EVANGELHO DE S. LUCAS / FAMILY BUSINESS IN THE GOSPEL OF ST. LUKE

Abstrakt

O artigo pretende estabelecer o estado da arte das organizações percursoras da família empresária na antiguidade, através da leitura não religiosa do evangelho de São Lucas. Procura-se, assim, contribuir para a construção de conhecimento organizado e estruturado e para uma compreensão mais aprofundada dos conceitos que estão subjacentes ao construto família empresária. A estratégia de investigação prosseguida socorreu-se da “teoria da prática” de Bourdieu, significando que no momento da realização de uma pesquisa, a problemática pode ser alterada, a hipótese modificada e as variáveis reconsideradas, fazendo com que a qualquer instante surja uma visão inovadora do que se passa no campo em análise. Como principais resultados aponta-se para uma estrutura de família empresária embrionária daquela que hoje conhecemos. Tais conhecimentos poderão potenciar um modelo integrador de várias dimensões teóricas, suficientemente genérico e abrangente, qual mosaico árabe, para que o mesmo possa ser aplicado a qualquer tipo de família empresária.

The article aims to establish the state of the art of organisations were precursors of the family business in ancient times through the non-religious reading of the Gospel of St. Luke. The construct of family business defines a family firm that is totally or partially owned by a family, from the second generation on wards, with formal organisational structures that ensure its continuity, growth and reinforcement of family heritage and status. The purpose of this article is to contribute to the construction of organised and structured knowledge about the particularities of the family business, as opposed to family firm. And, also, to a better understanding of the concepts that underlie the family business construct. The research strategy carried out was supported on Bourdieu’s “Theory of Practice”, an approach that aims to overcome dichotomies in social theory, such as micro/macro, material/symbolic, empirical/theoretical, objective/subjective, public/private, structure/agency, and focuses on the understanding the practical logic of everyday life and understand relations of power. Methodologically meaning that at the time of conducting a research, the problem can be changed and or the theoretical issues can be transformed, the hypothesis modified, and the variables reconsidered, causing at any moment an innovative vision of what is happening in the field under review. Our reading’s main finding suggested an existence in ancient times of the emergence of an embryonic family business structure. Such knowledge could enhance an integrating model of various theoretical dimensions, sufficiently generic and comprehensive, like an Arabic mosaic, so that it can be applied to any type of business family.