professionalized operation driven by succession. The aim of the authors is to examine the change in size of Hungarian SMEs which … experienced one of the succession types. The main question of our research is what process characteristics can be identified in … connection with the change in size of SMEs and the succession. With reference to our future research, factors need to be explored …

changes. One of the most significant processes during the lifecycle of SMEs is the succession process, especially the transfer … succession process of SMEs from the point of view of ownership types. We investigated the leadership succession differences … majority or foreign majority). We applied principal component analysis to investigate the process of succession and analysis of …