Succession Planning and Generational Transition: The Greatest Challenges for Family-owned Businesses

Family Businesses: The Extensiveness of Succession Problems and Possible Solutions

Management Succession in Family-owned SMEs: Learning from Failure

Succession is acknowledged to be especially critical in small organizations, as it is estimated that in the EU alone there is a risk of losing 150,000 firms due to transfer problems and only one third of family businesses “survive” their founder. As the vast majority of firms are in fact family businesses and SMEs, the economic impact of these unsuccessful successions is great. There exists a s...

Iran’s Shift in Family Planning Policies: Concerns and Challenges

Iran’s significant success in implementing Family Planning (FP) during the past 25 years, has made it a role model in the world. The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in Iran has dropped from 6.5 in 1960 to 1.6 in 2012, which is well below the targeted value of 2.2 for the country. Iran’s success story, however, did not merely root in the implementation of FP programs. In other words, families’ strong...

Employee Owned Businesses – Access to Funding

VIEW AND MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATIVENESS UPON SUCCESSION IN FAMILY-OWNED SMEs

The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into how the successors of family-owned manufacturing SMEs view and manage innovativeness. Research into company take-overs mainly focuses on large companies and little is known about innovativeness in research on familyowned businesses, often SMEs. This paper presents findings from ten company successions, five of which describe family successio...