A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW ON THE ROLE OF MORAL AND ETHICAL EDUCATION IN INTERGENERATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION WITHIN FAMILY BUSINESSES

Abstract

This systematic review of the literature examines how moral and ethical education avoids intergenerational conflict in Indonesian business families with emphasis on the culture mechanisms that define value continuity and conflict resolution. In accordance with the PRISMA protocol, across Scopus, Web of Science, and Sinta 1–3 database records (2015–2024), 37 eligible publications out of 1,132 records in the initial corpus were synthesized thematically. The analysis shows that fundamentally, intergenerational conflict is grounded in moral dissonance different interpretations of heritage values rather than manager or financial conflict. The research also finds Two-Way Moral Dialogue to be the major mediating mechanism. Mobilized through musyawarah keluarga (shared family discussion) and gotong royong (reciprocal mutual aid), the Two-Way Moral Dialogue reinterprets tension in collaborative moral reasoning that maintains trustworthiness, moral sophistication, and intergenerational cohesion. The research questions the universal applicability of Western formal ethics paradigms by advancing a culture-centric model of conflict resolution grounded in Indonesian collectivist values. Further research must corroborate this Conceptual Mediation Model in an empirical validation through long-term case research and create strong instruments with which to measure moral value transmission in the context of the family enterprise.