Carrying out successful succession in family businesses is an issue of vital significance for businesses themselves, and a great challenge for the pragmatics of family business management. It is also an issue important for the dynamics of Poland's economic development since it regards a wide...

Poland, as other post-communist transforming economies from Central and Eastern Europe, has a relatively short experience with family firm's development. The historical discontinuity in private sector is due to communist rule in 1945-1989: in that period most of the private (including family)...

"There are several approaches that incumbent family business leaders can adapt and adopt to ensure they hold their mantle as the premier proponents of continuity and increase the chances of sustaining across generations, but the solution lies in the commitment to the development and...

The main aim of the paper is to identify the succession strategies (especially the ways in which they attempt to balance the strive to maintain family's control over the company with the goal of firm's growth) of the first generation of Polish entrepreneurs. Research survey was conducted on a...

The paper elaborates on succession planning among Polish family businesses. Research survey was conducted on a random sample of 496 family enterprises in first quarter of 2009 (first phase, survey) and 61 family enterprises in third quarter of 2009 (second phase, in-depth-interview). The main...