The determinants of successful family business succession

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dc.contributor.advisor Swanepoel, Elana en
dc.contributor.postgraduate Prior, Stuart Walter en
dc.date.accessioned 2013-09-06T14:50:03Z
dc.date.available 2013-04-30 en
dc.date.available 2013-09-06T14:50:03Z
dc.date.created 2013-04-25 en
dc.date.issued 2012 en
dc.date.submitted 2013-03-16 en
dc.description Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. en
dc.description.abstract Family businesses represent a large proportion of the businesses registered in South Africa today, however very few of these businesses will cease to exist after the first generation. This represents a great loss in skills and wealth transfer, and a chance to contribute to economic growth. Family businesses need to learn how to manage the factors that affect the succession process. Therefore the aim of this study is to provide family business owners and managers with a keen insight of the determinants of successful family business succession.This research project consists of the analysis of eight South African family business case studies. Primary data was collected through semi-structured, in-depth discussions with family members in various capacities of ownership and management in the family business. A conceptual model was created to try and assist family businesses to understand the determinants of successful succession.Five key determinants were identified with a plethora of antecedent factors. The model acts as a mechanism to try and understand the various elements of the family business system and subsystems, and how they interact with each other at different stages of the business life cycle. en
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dc.description.department Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) en
dc.identifier.citation Prior, SW 2012, The determinants of successful family business succession, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23268 > en
dc.identifier.other F13/4/346/zw en
dc.identifier.upetdurl http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03162013-105312/ en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23268
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher University of Pretoria en_ZA
dc.rights © 2012 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. en
dc.subject UCTD en_US
dc.subject Determinants en
dc.subject Succession process en
dc.subject Family business en
dc.title The determinants of successful family business succession en
dc.type Dissertation en


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