Despite widespread concern that fewer and fewer individuals wish to enter farming as a career intergenerational succession remains an important objective for many farm businesses Indeed it can be argued that intergenerational transfer represents a fundamental aspect of the social sustainability of family farming Previous research has frequently focused on the transfer of physical assets while less attention has been devoted to the transfer of the intangible assets of the farm business such as managerial skills and farm specific knowledge This paper focuses on the succession process after a successor has been identified and analyses patterns of behaviour regarding the delegation of management responsibility Data from the international comparative studies is used to compare the main routes to succession in four countries and identifies how different routes to succession can influence the delegation of managerial responsibility In doing so the paper reflects on the farmer s boy problem and considers the implications for the successful transfer and survivability of the farm business Key words farm family business succession retirement intangible assets managerial skills routes to succession delegation
Let G be a connected reductive algebraic group defined over an algebraically closed field k. The aim of this paper is to present a method to find triples (G, M, H) with the following three properties. Property 1: G is simple and k has characteristic 2. Property 2: H and M are closed reductive subgroups of G such that H < M < G, and (G, M ) is a reductive pair. Property 3: H is G-completely reducible, but not M -completely reducible. We exhibit our method by presenting a new example of such a triple in G = E 7 . Then we consider a rationality problem and a problem concerning conjugacy classes as important applications of our construction.
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