Schell, Sabrina: Information rules the game : information exchange as a success factor in internal succession in family businessesInformationen bestimmen das Spiel : Informationsaustausch als Erfolgsfaktor in der internen Unternehmensnachfolge in Familienunternehmen. 2016
Content
Zusammenfassung (auf Deutsch)
Abstract (in English)
Acknowledgement
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
1 Introduction
2 A Brief Introduction of Family Firm Research
2.1 Family Business as a Field of Interest
2.2 Stewardship versus Agency Theory
2.3 Business Succession in Family Businesses
2.4 Social Capital Theory
2.5 An Overall Theoretical Model of Business Succession from an Agency Theory Perspective
3 It happens even in the best Families: Information Asymmetries and internal Business Succession
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Theoretical Framework
3.3 Data and Method
3.4 Analysis and Results
3.4.1 Information Asymmetries in the pre-Phase of Business Succession
3.4.2 Information Asymmetries in the durante-Phase of Business Succession.
3.4.3 Information Asymmetries in the after-Phase of Business Succession
3.4.4 Information Asymmetries in Family internal Business Succession - an overall Model
3.5 Discussion
3.6 Conclusion and Outlook
4 Advancing Signaling Theory: New Insights from Successor Selection in Family Businesses
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Method
4.3 Signaling in Family Businesses
4.3.1 Signals
4.3.2 Costly and Hard-to-Fake Signals
4.3.3 Positive and negative Signals
4.3.4 The Signaling Environment
4.3.5 The Time Frame of Signaling
4.4 A Process Model of Signaling in Successor Selection in Family Businesses
4.5 Implications for Signaling Theory
4.6 Discussion
4.7 Limitations and Future Research
4.8 Managerial Implications
4.9 Conclusion
5 It’s All About Who You Know: Intergenerational Social Capital Transfer in Family Businesses
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Social Capital in Family Businesses and the Business Succession Process
5.3 Method
5.4 Analyses and Results
5.4.1 Case Study Network Structures
5.4.2 Strategic Reasoning for Business Succession and Success
5.4.3 Towards a Process View of Social Capital Transfer in Family Businesses
5.5 Discussion
5.6 Limitations and Future Research
5.7 Conclusions
6 Summary of the Findings of this Dissertation and Concluding Remarks
6.1 Theoretical Implications
6.2 Managerial Implications
6.3 Limitations and Future Research
6.4 Conclusion
7 Bibliographie
Appendix