Forced transgenerational succession: Insights from a South African family business
通过18个月对南非一家纺织家族企业的质性研究，揭示子女强制取代父母控制权的代际传承过程，发现紧密的家庭纽带支撑了传承且亲属关系在强制传承后依然牢固。
Transgenerational succession remains one of the most studied topics in the family business literature. Despite this attention, little is known about a particular type of succession, one in which a child successor forcibly supplants a parental incumbent. Given that children can and often do push their parents out of the family business, insight into the forced transgenerational succession process is needed. Accordingly, we engaged in an 18-month qualitative study of a family-owned South African textile firm in which the daughter forcibly wrested control of the business from her mother. The findings contribute to theory by showing that cohesive family bonds underpinned the succession and that kinship bonds remained strong even after the forced succession. Practical implications and directions for future research are discussed.