VIEW AND MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATIVENESS UPON SUCCESSION IN FAMILY-OWNED SMEs
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چکیده
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 successions and five external ones. The paper shows that there is little difference in how various types of successor view and manage innovativeness. A successor is chosen with care and this also influences the view and management of innovativeness: other criteria seem to apply in the succession and any (radical) changes can only be introduced if a number of contextual factors are managed properly.
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