Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore leadership succession in families in business. Although there is a vast amount of research on leadership succession, no attempt has been made to understand this phenomenon by using an intergenerational learning approach. By applying the Double...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how intergenerational communication between predecessors and successors impacts on the entrepreneurial family and the family business, and aims at developing a typology of communication patterns in family business succession....

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the pertinent issues, barriers and pitfalls of intergenerational communication in business families during their leadership succession period. Design/methodology/approach: Building on relational leadership theory, the paper makes use of an action research...