Succession strategy in Polish family businesses – a comparative analysis
Strategia sukcesyjna w polskich firmach rodzinnych – analiza porównawcza

Summary/Abstract: Family businesses constitute an important part of the new national and global economy. Due to their specificity, family businesses faced many difficulties, one of which is to plan and implement the succession strategy. This issue is particularly important challenge to the Polish family enterprises which due to the operation time now increasingly started to plan this process. The main aim of this paper is to present the approach of Polish family firms to the issue of planning and implementing the succession strategy for nearly 10 years of empirical research and to identify key areas requiring conducting in-depth analyzes. The author would like also to underline the convergences and divergences in the succession strategy approach in family business in reference to Polish family business. Such proceedings may show a scientific gap for further research on analyzed topic. The first part of the article presents the theoretical background of trans-generational strategy transfer of power and property assumptions. The second one describes approach of Polish family businesses to the subject of succession strategy perspective on the basis of empirical studies.

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