“Over My Dead Body”: Wives’ Influence in Family Business Succession

2021 ◽  
pp. 089448652110511
Author(s):  
Barbara Cosson ◽  
Michael Gilding
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Business Continuity ◽  
Dead Body ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Business Succession ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Family Business Succession

The family business literature barely addresses wives’ influence in family business succession. Where it does so, the result is often tokenistic, stereotypical, and imprecise. Drawing on 34 in-depth interviews, this article makes three contributions. First, it identifies wives’ critical influence in family business succession through socialization across the life span of the family business; specifically, through normative, interactive, and experiential socialization. Second, it demonstrates the diverse dynamics and impact of wives’ influence on family business continuity. Third, it highlights the particular significance of experiential socialization, whereby changing expectations of marriage and family life have amplified wives’ influence in succession outcomes.

Cultural values and their implications to family business succession

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grisna Anggadwita ◽  
Werda Bagus Profityo ◽  
Dini Turipanam Alamanda ◽  
Anggraeni Permatasari
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Family ◽  
Succession Process ◽  
Business Succession ◽  
Family Business Succession ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The family business is one of the business entities that contribute to the economy of a country. Succession in the family business occupies a strategic position, especially in maintaining the company’s sustainability. The Chinese family business has unique characteristics in maintaining and growing its business with the cultural values that underlie how their business. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the cultural values of Chinese ethnic and their implications in the succession process in small family businesses in Bandung, Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach This research uses a qualitative method with the in-depth interview method as a data collection technique. The sampling technique uses purposive sampling, while to test the validity of research data using a triangulation technique. A total of four small Chinese-owned family businesses participated as informants in this study. The study will identify the stage of succession process in the Chinese family business. Findings There are several stages identified in the succession planning of small Chinese-owned family business in Bandung which include succession antecedents, succession activities and desired outcomes. The results showed that small Chinese-owned family business in Bandung has not applied the rules and procedures in the succession process. Most of the Chinese family business in this research still holds Confucianism culture; they prioritize boys as business successors, who have a greater responsibility rather than successor with other gender. Practical implications Several implications are discussed. One of them is the Chinese family business holding cultural values in the process of family business succession. Originality/value This research is expected to provide theoretical and practical implications for academics and family companies with similar cases.

Succession in the Family Business: Challenges for Successors from an Entrepreneurial Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Weismeier-Sammer ◽  
Isabella R. Hatak
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Teaching Case ◽  
The Family ◽  
Succession Process ◽  
Business Succession ◽  
Business Challenges ◽  
Family Business Succession

Kronmann Wholesale and Retail is an outstanding family business with more than 300 years of history. This teaching case tells the story of two cousins who follow their fathers into a business full of tradition. The case gives students the opportunity to gain insights into the complex succession process of family businesses, as well as the challenges with which successors are confronted in the course of family business succession.

FAMILY BUSINESS SUCCESSION: EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS APPROACH

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (03) ◽  
pp. 279-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUHA KANSIKAS ◽  
TUOMAS KUHMONEN
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Evolutionary Economics ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Family Firm ◽  
Evolutionary Forces ◽  
2Nd Generation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Business Succession ◽  
Family Business Succession ◽  
Selection Of

This study analyses family business continuity from founder generation to the 2nd generation in terms of succession in the context of evolutionary economics. Two literature bases; family business succession and evolutionary thinking in organisational and economic change, are reviewed and combined to provide insights to understand the nature of family business succession. Operation of the key evolutionary forces — variation, selection, retention and struggle — in family business succession are illustrated. Regarding variation, there is a concern for understanding the importance of having enough diversity within the family firm, since this diversity of routines and competences comprises the pool of variation from which to select when the environment changes. With regards to selection, there is a concern for understanding the risk of selection bias easily rooted in the family firm culture: are some variations favoured in the selection of operating, investment and search routines because of family relations, emotions and values, including decisions on who will succeed and who will own the firm in the future. Elaboration and investigation of these concepts may help to identify special characteristics of the "family firm species" that are either beneficial or risky for the survival in the evolutionary struggle.

scholarly journals THE DIFFERENCE PATTERN OF SUCCESSION BETWEEN SECOND GENERATION AND THRID GENERATION FAMILY BUSINESS IN INDONESIA (A REVIEW OF THE MEDIUM-SIZE FAMILY BUSINESS)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-154
Author(s):  
Christina Whidya Utami
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Family System ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
Generation Family ◽  
Business Succession ◽  
Family Business Succession

The purpose of this study is to find out whether there are differences on pattern of succession between the second and the third generation of family business in Indonesia. Research Design/ Methodology/ Approach: A cross sectional and comparative research design were used in this study, while the data survey was conducted to 41 respondents from the second-generation group and 48 respondents from the third-generation family business; the businesses has run for 5 to 50 years and were categorized as medium size family business. The study used multiple regression test via SPSS to test the hypothesis. Findings: In family business led by the second-generation successor, only personality system affects the family business succession. On the other hand, in family business led by the third-generation, personality, ownership, family, and management system variables affect the success of the family business; meanwhile, family system does not find to affect the family business succession. Research Limitation/ Implication: This study investigates pattern of succession in family business including personality system, ownership system, family system and management system. This study can suggest a solution in the regeneration process of a family business in order to maintain the continuity of the business. limitation: There are some biases found on family’s perspective of the assessment, and the study only focus on medium-size family business. Practical Implications: A right amount of focus on pattern of succession will help the second and the third generation of the family to manifest in business succession. Exploring the second and the third-generation perspectives in regard to succession pattern is the key to maintain the continuity of the family business. Originality/ value: This study offers a pattern of succession from various perspectives, including personal, ownership, family, and management, as well as the relationship to the long-term success of the family business.

scholarly journals Founder’s Apprehension in Small Family Business Succession in Thailand: Interpretative View of the Situational Distance

SAGE Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824401988513
Author(s):  
Tariq H. Malik
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Succession Planning ◽  
Discretionary Power ◽  
Small Family ◽  
Cognitive Scripts ◽  
Succession Process ◽  
Functional Context ◽  
Business Succession ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Family Business Succession

Small family businesses (SFBs) encounter disruption during the intergenerational succession unless understood and managed effectively. Even before the succession process begins, the founder’s apprehension about the succession rises to a critical level, and yet a little research has dealt with this issue. We address the issue of the founder’s apprehension through this qualitative study by tracing the causes, contexts, and contours through the accounts of the founder in Thailand. We used 18 in-depth interviews with founders whose business types, their intergenerational succession planning, and regional contexts had similarities. A bricolage between family business as a rational device and a social device reveals whether and how the founder’s mental structures and situated-attention reflected on the focal concept of “apprehension.” We note several findings. First, a combination of cognitive scripts and situated attention altered the founder’s identity vis-à-vis the heir. Following from the functional, relational, locational, temporal, and structural narratives, the founder’s interpreted distance from that of the heir suggests that the discretionary power of the founder varies. Second, this variation translates into apprehension in an order. Third, based on the order of the distance between the founder and heir, the functional and structural narrative take the first and second positions. Third, theoretically, we link the functional context to cognitive and structural context to normative perspectives.

scholarly journals INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN NON-FAMILY BUSINESS MEMBERS, NEPOTISM AND PRIDE IN FAMILY BUSINESS SUCCESSION

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-55
Author(s):  
Anita Maharani ◽  
Laurencia Bernadette Yokung ◽  
Ervan Ignasius ◽  
Nixon Suwargo
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Professional Involvement ◽  
The Family ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Business Succession ◽  
Family Business Succession

The purpose of this study is to raise issues related to the succession of family-owned businesses, influenced by the involvement of members outside the family business and have something to do with nepotism and self-esteem. Conceptually, there is a relationship between members outside the family business, nepotism, and self-esteem in the family business. When there is professional involvement, the effect is positive on the family business's succession. When there is a practice of nepotism, this will harm the family business. And finally, regarding self-esteem, which will have a positive influence on the family business. This research's approach is quantitative, by looking at how much impact the independent variable has on the dependent where the sample of this study is 128 respondents. The results of this study indicate that professional existence does not affect the success of the family business. Simultaneously, nepotism will harm the family business, and then self-esteem will affect the family business's succession.

scholarly journals Legal regulation of the family members’ entrepreneurial activity and inheritance relations: law enforcement problems

2021 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 01011
Author(s):  
Vladislav Vasilyevich Kudryashov ◽  
Valentina Sergeevna Lepeshkina ◽  
Irina Vladimirovna Sazonova ◽  
Aleksandr Anatolevich Potkin ◽  
Viktor Anatolevich Altunin
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Joint Stock Company ◽  
Stock Company ◽  
The Family ◽  
Business Succession ◽  
Family Business Succession

The problem of transition in the line of business assets and obligations succession with regard to norms of civil, family and business law represents an important legal problem as for the matter of family business succession. Russian legislation does not determine the family business succession as a single entity, there exists no special regulation as well as the term “entrepreneurial succession”. The doctrine gives a reasonable conclusion that “practices of the recent past reveal substantial problems of marital regimes legal regulation under a digital transformation of the economy”. Inheriting different properties that can be collectively referred to sphere of entrepreneurial activity causes many problems of similar properties transition in the line of succession in the field of law enforcement. Determining particularities of legal regulation of inheritance relations complicated with business activities in order to ensure efficient regulation of succession to business assets and debts and as well to ensure law enforcement stability. The methodological base for the present scientific research is represented by the system of general scientific and specific scientific methods and research techniques, including a historical method, a logical method, a method of system analysis and research, a comparative legal method, a statistical method, a functional-structural method, methods of analysis and synthesis, a method of specification, an empirical and theoretical method, i.e. analogy, deduction. The authors suppose that in conditions of the world financial crisis complicated with consequences of the coronavirus pandemic small businesses are the most vulnerable, including family businesses. The authors believe that a modern lawyer must have systemic knowledge for efficient application of civil law, inheritance law, family law, entrepreneurial law on the basis of the convergence principle in law. The use of a rather broad methodological base allows determining essential properties of legal regulation of the family members’ entrepreneurial activity and inheritance relations from the point of view of law enforcement problems resolution. As for particularities of inheritance regulations application, a joint-stock company is supposed to have certain mechanisms of the protection of its interests in terms of its shares inheritance. For example, it is possible to envisage the right of a private joint-stock company to discourage inclusion within its shareholders a new participant in line with a similar power of the limited liability companies.

scholarly journals Portuguese and Brazilian Family Business: in Between Urgency and Delay Perceptions in the Succession Process

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Marques ◽  
Leandro Alves da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Succession Planning ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Executive Succession ◽  
Family Conflicts ◽  
The Family ◽  
Management Succession ◽  
Business Succession ◽  
Depth Interviews

Family business has been the focus of several studies over the last two decades and its relevance has been supported by the interdisciplinary perspectives in the fields of management, entrepreneurship, economics, psychology, and sociology. Despite that, there is still insufficient knowledge about the key role of family influences in the business, namely the intergenerational management succession, its planning and effectiveness. According to a recent research focused on the entrepreneurial succession in Portugal (AEP, 2011), 50 percent of family businesses are not passed on to the second generation and only 20 percent reach the third generation. In fact, business succession planning has been identified as one of the most challenging steps in the life of the family firm, both in maintaining the competiveness of the business, and in overcoming intra/ inter family conflicts. Nonetheless, resistance to succession, relationship founder/ successor, planning of succession, and type of organisational culture, among others, explain how executive succession is one of the most important and hardest tasks in organisational life (Zahra, 2005). This paper will be supported mainly by qualitative data, taking into account the main results from the project “Roadmap for Portuguese Family Businesses” (NORTE2020/FEDER) developed in Portugal (Marques, 2018) and in Brazil (Silva, 2018), which analyses in-depth interviews conducted to Portuguese (N 23) and Brazilian (N 11) founders/managers/owners. In the present article we wish to discuss the main management challenges of a family business, particularly the importance of succession preparation and the role of the family in the socialisation of the second (third or subsequent) generation.

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