Title: Successor attitudes in family firms

Authors: Salma Fattoum

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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to highlight the impact of the predecessor's role on the successor's attitude following his integration into the family business. We deploy a combined model that helps to elucidate the process (Le Breton-Miller et al., 2004) and a typology developed by Bauer (1993) that helps to characterise the actors. Four attitudes are distinguished: belated independence, unconstrained independence, forced conservatism and agreed conservatism.

Keywords: succession; family business; successor; attitude; conservatism; independence.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESB.2021.115880

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2021 Vol.43 No.3, pp.345 - 362

Received: 19 Jul 2018
Accepted: 28 Jan 2019
Published online: 05 Jul 2021 *

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