Description
Book SynopsisBusiness transfer' refers to the transfer of ownership and leadership from one or more outgoing owner-manager(s) to one or more incoming owner-manager(s). Apart from all the company''s material assets, it presupposes that information, relationships, know-how and social capital are also transmitted from one to the other.
While much of the research on entrepreneurship has focused on new business ventures, few studies have considered business transfers as an alternative way of embarking on entrepreneurial activities. Business Transfers, Family Firms and Entrepreneurship provides the international community with a more comprehensive state-of-the-art of business transfer studies, which will enrich readers' understanding. The business transfer is examined through different prisms: family businesses, internal business transfers to employees, external business transfers, and woman in business transfers.
This book deals with business transfer as a whole, fo
Table of Contents
Part 1. Definitions. 1. Business transfer: Historical perspectives, definitions and the transfer process Bérangère Deschamps. 2. Revisiting the entrepreneurial exit decision process: A decision-making model Marie-Josée Drapeau, Maripier Tremblay. Part 2. Family business transfers. 3. Emotions in family business succession Soumaya SFEIR. 4. Family business transfer: A stressful event for successors Florence Guiliani, Luis Cisneros. 5. The making of family entrepreneurs: How heirs become entrepreneurs and take over a family business Paulette Robic, Dominique Barbelivien, Nicolas Antheaume. 6. Succession and family business in between emotional and financial issues: The role of governance with a two-tier system Céline Barrédy. 7. Succession and strategic renewal in family firms: Insights from a French family firm Didier Chabaud, Mariem Hannachi, Hedi Yezza. Part 3. Internal business transfers to employees. 8. Towards a better understanding of SME employee buyouts Catherine Thévenard-Puthod, Cédric Favre. 9. Is a workers cooperative an effective means for transferring SMEs? Marie-Christine Barbot-Grizzo. Part 4. External business transfer. 10. A research framework for external business transfers of SMEs Bérangère Deschamps, Susanne Durst. 11. The legitimacy of the external successor: Issues and means of acquisition Lyès Mazari, Sandrine Berger-Douce, Bérangère Deschamps. 12. From outsider to insider: Organisational socialisation in takeover situations Sonia Boussaguet. 13. How to effectively support external buyers in a post-business transfer situation? Catherine Thévenard-Puthod. Part 5. Women in business transfers. 14. Family as an institution to investigate the role of women in the transfer of family businesses Paulette Robic. 15. Gender and succession in the family business Christina Constantinidis. 16. Daughters: Invisible heroes of family businesses? Audrey Missonier, Annabelle Jaouen, Béatrice Albert. 17. Female external successors: Difficulties during the business transfer process and types of support required Bérangère Deschamps, Catherine Thévenard-Puthod.
