Patterns of Succession and Continuity in Family-Owned Businesses: Study of an Ethnic Community

Perricone, Philip J.; Earle, John R.; Taplin, Ian M.

doi:10.1111/j.1741-6248.2001.00105.x

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“…Perricone et al (2001) have shown that most successors are first-born males. However, the empirical study on leadership in family firms remains largely understudied (Renko et al 2012).…”

Section: Family Firms and Entrepreneurial Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women-owned family businesses in transitional economies: key influences on firm innovativeness and sustainability

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This research presents an examination of familial influence on strategic entrepreneurial behaviors within a transitional economic context. Utilizing a large sample of women-led family businesses, the study investigates the relationships between risk-taking propensity, entrepreneurial intensity, and opportunity recognition of the entrepreneur and the innovative orientation of the firm and sustainability. A model of the influences on innovativeness and sustainability in family firms is developed, and the potential contribution of the present study is the identification of constructs that facilitate these strategic outcomes and behaviors that drive growth. The degree to which family firms can create new products, services, and processes that add value to their marketplace can strongly influence their sustainability, especially in an emerging economy.

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“…Perricone et al (2001) have shown that most successors are first-born males. However, the empirical study on leadership in family firms remains largely understudied (Renko et al 2012).…”

Section: Family Firms and Entrepreneurial Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women-owned family businesses in transitional economies: key influences on firm innovativeness and sustainability

et al. 2014

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“…Handler (1990) typifies succession as "a mutual adjustment process between the founder and the next-generation family members". The author delineates the progression as transferral of leadership experience, authority, decisionmaking power and equity, as well as knowledge and ideas (Cabrera-Suarez et al, 2001;Perricone et al, 2001).…”

Section: Family Business Succession As a Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…4. Management accounting change processes, supporting the transfer of knowledge, can be considered as inextricably linked with the succession process, which implies the transfer of expertise, knowledge and ideas (Cabrera-Suarez et al, 2001;Perricone et al, 2001). …”

Section: Contributions and Further Developmentsmentioning

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The role of management accounting in family business succession

Bisogno¹,

Vaia²

2017

Afr. J. Bus. Manage.

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Family business succession is considered inherent to family businesses and represents a critical process that is generally characterised by resistance to change. This study aims to investigate the role of management accounting systems (MASs) in family business succession, in order to understand how changes in MASs during the succession across different family generations can help the succession process itself, facilitating the rise of the new leader, supporting changes, and reducing resistance to them. The research adopts a case study approach, focusing on organizational routines and their changes, at the same time taking into account the socioemotional wealth of the family firm. Evidence from the study shows the strategic role of MAS in managing the succession process, through the implementation of new routines and rules in helping the decision-making process and in achieving the firm's leadership.

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“…The likelihood of daughters being compared with their mothers' managerial styles may create greater tensions in mother-daughter successions than those present in father-daughter successions, due to the identification of same sex (Vera and Dean, 2005). In patriarchal/familistic cultural systems, daughters are less likely to be systematically trained and prepared for leadership roles in the family business (Howorth and Assaraf Ali, 2001;Perricone, Earle and Taplin, 2001;Dumas, Dupuis, Richer and St.-Cyr, 1995), making gender awareness in the succession planning process crucial (Harveston, Davis and Lyden, 1997). Daughters have been shown to take on roles in emerging, strategically important areas, whereas sons take on roles that are more in line with the way things have been done in the past (García-Élvare, López-Sintas and Gonzalvo, 2002).…”

Section: (B) Women Moving Into Business Via Successionmentioning

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Family business women in media discourse: the business role and the mother role

Bjursell

Bäckvall

2011

Journal of Family Business Management

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PurposeWritings in the media have the potential to influence our standpoint and, thereby, our actions. In this paper, the authors analyze how women in family business are represented in media to understand the frames set by this discourse in terms of women owning and leading family businesses. The aim of the paper is to explore how the counterposed roles of business person and mother are presented in media and what implications this might have for role enactment.Design/methodology/approachThe paper opted for an exploratory study of 308 articles about women in family business over a 15‐year period. In the interpretative, qualitative analysis of media texts, the discursive construction of the mother role and the business role are explored.FindingsThe paper provides empirical insights into how the mother role is taken for granted while the business role is approached as problematic in portrayals of women in family business. The authors discuss whether the media discourse reinforces traditional roles or stimulates role innovation.Practical implicationsUnderstanding role as something separate from the individual provides a means to critically review expectations of women in business and how these expectations hinder business activities.Originality/valueThe study examines data over a 15‐year period in the Swedish media setting and describes changes in attitudes about women's roles in family business. Regarding the family business as an arena for performative acts provides a perspective that can highlight the intertwinement of the private and professional arenas in family business.

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Patterns of Succession and Continuity in Family-Owned Businesses: Study of an Ethnic Community

Cited by 56 publications

References 19 publications

Women-owned family businesses in transitional economies: key influences on firm innovativeness and sustainability

Women-owned family businesses in transitional economies: key influences on firm innovativeness and sustainability

The role of management accounting in family business succession

Family business women in media discourse: the business role and the mother role

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