Baby Boomers and other business owners are divesting their Small and Mid-Sized Enterprises (SME) for several reasons. Absent a well-planned Business Succession Plan, decades of knowledge, innovation, and wealth can be lost both to stakeholders and society alike. Although Succession Planning has...

Baby Boomers and other business owners are divesting their Small and Mid-Sized Enterprises (SME) for several reasons. Absent a well-planned Business Succession Plan, decades of knowledge, innovation, and wealth can be lost both to stakeholders and society alike. Although Succession Planning has...

Different types of strategic renewal by the successor are identified: organizational change, innovation, combined actions and no action. The main assumption is that renewal after succession improves SME post-transfer performance compared to no actions taken. Also, successor’s timing of the...

Betroffene Unternehmenstypen -- Bestandsaufnahme und mögliche Problemfelder -- Ausgewählte betriebswirtschaftlichen Lösungsansätze -- Ausgewählte technische Lösungsansätze -- Due Diligence: Möglichkeit zur Standardisierung des Prozesses zur Unternehmenswertsteigerung -- Konsequenzen für...