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Founder-CEOs: Succession planning for the success, growth, and legacy of family firms

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The academic research of family-owned small and medium enterprises (SMEs) has undergone significant growth over the past several decades. Many researchers hold that the succession of founder-CEOs represents one of the most important challenges faced by family firms known as family-owned SMEs. Family firms rarely plan for succession. This is an important oversight committed by most family firms. Succession planning, however, likely remains one of the primary causes for the success, growth, and legacy of family firms. To address this issue, a conceptual model for founder-CEO succession planning in family firms was developed to improve family business commitment, continuity, and tacit knowledge transfer for child successors.

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  • John F. LeCounte, 2022. "Founder-CEOs: Succession planning for the success, growth, and legacy of family firms," Journal of Small Business Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 60(3), pages 616-633, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ujbmxx:v:60:y:2022:i:3:p:616-633
    DOI: 10.1080/00472778.2020.1725814
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    1. Miruna Radu-Lefebvre & James Davis & William Gartner, 2024. "Legacy in Family Business: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda," Post-Print hal-04515862, HAL.
    2. Rafee I. Tunde OLAGUNJU & Issa ABDULRAHEEM Ph.D & Zekeri ABU Ph.D & Abdulazeez Alhaji SALAU Ph.D, 2022. "Succession Planning and Sustainability of Family Owned Businesses in Lagos State," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 6(12), pages 285-291, December.
    3. Mikoláš Zdeněk & Matejun Marek, 2023. "Theory and practice of the evolutionary networks of potential in a family business succession," Journal of Economics and Management, Sciendo, vol. 45(1), pages 345-373, January.
    4. Chux Gervase Iwu & Nobandla Malawu & Elona Nobukhosi Ndlovu & Tendai Makwara & Lucky Sibanda, 2024. "Sustaining Family Businesses through Business Incubation: An Africa-Focused Review," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 17(5), pages 1-22, April.

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