Family Businesses - Focusing on Succession

We can find family businesses all over the world with different industries and various operating systems. Succession is the final test of a family enterprise. The concerns about succession in family businesses are not without a cause according to research results. The book overviews of the theoretical literature and of the problems of succession relating to family businesses with special characteristics within the field and presents the results of the empirical research examining the succession peculiarities of Hungarian small family businesses. The book consists of six parts: the first two chapters are the sum of the general, theoretical knowledge related to family businesses, the third and fourth chapter are the detailed decompression of the special questions of succession, the fifth chapter is the presentation of the results of an empirical survey, the last chapter includes the summary and the future possibilities of research directions. The book should be especially useful to professionals in Family Business field, family business owners, successors and their non-family member managers.