Important Attributes of Successors in Family Businesses: An Exploratory Study
- 1 March 1998
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Family Business Review
- Vol. 11 (1) , 35-47
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-6248.1998.00035.x
Abstract
Respondents from 485 family firms in Canada rated integrity and commitment to the business as the most important attributes of a successor. Results indicated that the older the family business and the longer the respondent's tenure in that business, the more important these attributes became. Birth order and gender were rated the least important, despite the attention the literature has given to those attributes.Keywords
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