Succession Planning as Planned Behavior: Some Empirical Results
基于计划行为理论，研究了家族企业主留任意愿、家族承诺和可信继任者倾向对继任规划活动的影响，发现继任者的推动比企业主的拉动更重要。
This paper uses the theory of planned behavior to hypothesize the influence of the incumbent's desire to keep the business in the family, the family's commitment to the business, and the propensity of a trusted successor to take over on the extent to which family firms engage in succession planning activities. We test these hypotheses using data collected from presidents in 118 family firms. The results show that the propensity of a trusted successor to take over significantly affects the incidence of all succession-planning-related activities. Succession planning may, then, be the result of push by the successor more than of pull by the incumbent. Such a view has negative implications for the succession process that the family firms in our sample follow.