Schell, Sabrina: Information rules the game : information exchange as a success factor in internal succession in family businesses. 2016
Inhalt
- 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