Cultivating Narratives: Cultivating Successors

Steiger, Thomas L.; Eckert, Jeanette; Gatrell, Jay D.; Reid, Neil; Ross, Paula

doi:10.5304/jafscd.2012.022.012

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“…Although literature on the intergenerational transfer of managerial control emphasises how the patterns of succession can vary (Gasson and Errington ; Potter and Lobley ; Steiger et al . ), they point to an overall progression of the prospective successor from technical to higher rung financial management tasks and decision‐making. The idea of a definitive ascension from low to high responsibility tasks, as part of the transfer process was first identified by Commins and Kelleher's () in their study of Irish farmer's succession patterns.…”

Section: The Patterns and Stages Of Managerial Transfer: A Reviewmentioning

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From Generation to Generation: Changing Dimensions of Intergenerational Farm Transfer

Chiswell

2016

Sociologia Ruralis

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The transfer of managerial control between generations on the family farm has long been understood as a critical and often problematic phase, with implications for both the individual farm business and more broadly, the sustainability of family farming systems. Drawing on empirical data from interviews with prospective successors and farmers in Devon, England, the article provides a contemporary analysis of the transfer of managerial control on family farms. Although in line with traditional conceptualisations, findings reaffirm how many prospective successors were delegated tasks of increasing responsibility, with limited access to the higher responsibility financial management tasks, an emergent cohort of younger prospective successors enjoyed a contrasting progression towards managerial control, involving varied involvement across all aspects of farm management. With reference to late modernity and the individualisation thesis, the article explores how unconstrained by tradition the emerging cohort described a wealth of off-farm experiences, including what the article terms short-term diversions, which the analysis reveals have informed and shaped their progression towards managerial control. In view of these findings, the article offers an alternative and up-to-date conceptualisation of the transfer of managerial control in the form of the succession matrix, before considering the potential applications and some avenues for future research.

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Section: The Patterns and Stages Of Managerial Transfer: A Reviewmentioning

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From Generation to Generation: Changing Dimensions of Intergenerational Farm Transfer

Chiswell

2016

Sociologia Ruralis

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“…Farm succession is complex; it includes several sub-processes such as retirement (current farm manager ceases the active managerial control), inheritance (legal transfer of ownership) and succession (transfer of the managerial control) (Potter and Lobley, 1996). It is a process that takes place over an extended period (Steiger et al, 2011), and is accompanied by farm family members and consultants who provide legal and financial advice (Leonard et al, 2017). Planning, control, and management are essential, because the process is not necessarily smooth and continuity in the farm's operation needs to be secured (Steiger et al, 2011;Leonard et al, 2017).…”

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Taking the helm at the family operation under the watchful eye of the predecessor: Succession in European horticulture and agriculture

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2020

Europ.J.Hortic.Sci

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“…In Potter and Lobley's (: 318) discussion, they talk of a successor being someone ‘in the wings’, someone who will take over the farm. In some cases, the term successor can merely refer to someone, who by virtue of nothing more than their relationship to the farmer, typically the farmer's son, is likely to gain managerial control over the farm. The term also refers to someone who has gained managerial control of the farm. In their recent paper on small family farms in Ohio, Steiger et al (: 96) talk of successors as being “current farmers who had inherited the farm (making themselves successors).”…”

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The Importance of Next Generation Farmers: A Conceptual Framework to Bring the Potential Successor into Focus

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2014

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Intergenerational succession is understood as an integral facet of the family farm. The importance of the succession process and more specifically, successor identification, are critically discussed in the context of the widely propagated projections of global population growth and associated demands on the agricultural sector. Having established the merits of successor identification, the article then highlights the absence of the ‘potential successor’ from contemporary research and continues by offering a conceptual framework, capable of bringing this important research subject into focus as an autonomous and valuable actor, which, given the anticipated renaissance in agriculture, is perhaps now, more important than ever.

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Cultivating Narratives: Cultivating Successors

Cited by 7 publications

References 21 publications

From Generation to Generation: Changing Dimensions of Intergenerational Farm Transfer

From Generation to Generation: Changing Dimensions of Intergenerational Farm Transfer

Taking the helm at the family operation under the watchful eye of the predecessor: Succession in European horticulture and agriculture

The Importance of Next Generation Farmers: A Conceptual Framework to Bring the Potential Successor into Focus

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