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| Successors’ leadership development Mechanism in Family Firms |
| SUN Hai fa,HUANG Yu mei |
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Abstract Successors’ leadership development is one of the most important strategies for family firms. The established researches focus on founders’ leadership behavior or leadership style. The purpose of this qualitative research is to better understand the successors’ leadership characteristics and their approach to the leadership of the family firms. Based on literature analysis, successors’ leadership goals, firm culture related to the family, and entrepreneurs successors’ motivation to develop in the family firm are regarded as three aspects different from predecessors’ leadership. Then factors that shape successors’ leadership are investigated. Content variables abstracted including positive parent-child relationships, knowledge acquisition, long-term orientation, cooperation, successor roles, and risk-perception. A four-stage model that ties six variables with succession process is proposed, which explains the mechanism of successors’ leadership development. The research results a
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Received: 07 May 2012
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Corresponding Authors:
SUN Hai fa
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2012, Vol. 1 
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