Important Attributes of Successors in Family Businesses: An Exploratory Study
对加拿大485家家族企业的调查发现，诚信和敬业是继任者最重要的特质，企业历史越长、受访者任职越久，这些特质越受重视；出生顺序和性别被认为最不重要。
Respondents from 485 family firms in Canada rated integrity and commitment to the business as the most important attributes of a successor. Results indicated that the older the family business and the longer the respondent's tenure in that business, the more important these attributes became. Birth order and gender were rated the least important, despite the attention the literature has given to those attributes.