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Critical successor attributes in Indian family owned businesses in South Africa
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/23099 Critical successor attributes in Indian family owned businesses in South Africa Babb, Sarah ichelp@gibs.co.za Desai, Jatheen UCTD Family-owned business entreprises Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. The purpose of this research paper was to identify and understand critical successor attributes in Indian family owned businesses in South Africa. The understanding of these attributes may inform management’s selection criteria in choosing an appropriate successor. Succession is crucial in terms of the survival of Indian family owned businesses in South Africa. A literature review on the topic of succession in family owned businesses was done. From the literature, 30 critical successor attributes were identified. The research question was formulated after discovering that there have not been any South African studies on the topic of critical successor attributes. Interviewees were asked to list and discuss critical successor attributes as part of the open ended questions during the interview and then later presented and asked to rate the importance of the 30 successor attributes identified from two previous studies. Eight Indian family owned businesses were identified through purposive sampling where the predecessor/potential predecessor and the successor/potential successor were interviewed. The open ended questions in the interview provided rich descriptive data and highlighted critical successor attributes according to this sample. The most critical successor attributes identified were financial and accounting skills; education; and business acumen. When presented with the 30 attributes identified from the previous two studies, “integrity” and “commitment to business” were identified as the two most important successor attributes from this list. Copyright Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T14:30:29Z 2010-04-21 2013-09-06T14:30:29Z 2008-11-13 2010-04-21 2010-03-10 Dissertation Desai, J 2008, Critical successor attributes in Indian family owned businesses in South Africa, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23099 > G10/14/mh http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23099 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03102010-162640/ © 2008, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Family-owned business entreprises Critical successor attributes in Indian family owned businesses in South Africa |
| title | Critical successor attributes in Indian family owned businesses in South Africa |
| title_full | Critical successor attributes in Indian family owned businesses in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Critical successor attributes in Indian family owned businesses in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Critical successor attributes in Indian family owned businesses in South Africa |
| title_short | Critical successor attributes in Indian family owned businesses in South Africa |
| title_sort | critical successor attributes in indian family owned businesses in south africa |
| topic | UCTD Family-owned business entreprises |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23099 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03102010-162640/ |