This paper examines the determinants of inter vivos (lifetime) transfers of ownership in German family firms between 2000 and 2013. Survey evidence indicates that owners of larger firms, and firms with strong current business conditions, transfer ownership at higher rates than others. When a...

Family businesses contribute more than 50% of Gross Domestic Product in global economy, though, only 13 percent of family businesses survive through third generation. Family business succession is a key to reduce the failure rate and leads to sustainable business. Recent literatures have...

The objective of the study is to contemplate the effectiveness of hierarchical CEO succession and hierarchical CEO succession intensity on SOEs & Non-SOEs performance separately. Meanwhile, the impact of hierarchical CEO succession on cash holdings has also been analysed. The authenticated data...

One of the most significant challenges facing family businesses, and therefore the most studied, is how to successfully manage succession from one generation to the next. The purpose of this article is to allow the vast quantity of evidence and experience to be contextualised, and enable a...

This paper analysed the roles of Effective Succession Planning and Management for Organizational Development and the various methods to involved. Data were collected, collated analysed using qualitative, quantitative methods and descriptive statistics i.e. simple percentage and frequency...

This chapter addresses the issue of structural change within for-profit organizations, both as adaptation to changing markets and as purposeful experimentation to search for new opportunities, and builds upon the ‘reconfiguration’ construct. In the areas of strategy, evolutionary economics,...

This paper analysed the roles of Effective Succession Planning and Management for Organizational Development and the various methods to involved. Data were collected, collated analysed using qualitative, quantitative methods and descriptive statistics i.e. simple percentage and frequency...