Objectives: Business transfers are posing a particular problem for several European countries as the age distribution of business owners rises and as the number of firms transferred within families' declines. This paper explores firm, market, and regional differences in firms which are expected...

Objectives: Business transfers are posing a particular problem for several European countries as the age distribution of business owners rises and as the number of firms transferred within families' declines. This paper explores firm, market, and regional differences in firms which are expected...

This paper examines a representative choice experiment for Ireland (n = 1014) to understand the trade-offs citizens are willing to make between the distribution of financial benefits from a nearby wind farm and proce- dural measures for citizen participation in decision-making. Both...

•One tentative estimate places the incidence of transfer failure at around 100,000 per year, although many of these ‘failures’ involve micro businesses, with few assets or employees, and which may not be viable candidates for transfer. Through a literature review, focus groups with those...