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Succession planning in Chinese family-owned businesses in Hong Kong: an exploratory study on critical success factors and successor selection criteria

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posted on 2022-03-28, 01:45 authored by Ling Ming Chan
This is one of the first studies to engage with succession issues amongst Chinese family-owned businesses (FOBs) in Hong Kong. The study is based on a survey conducted amongst FOBs in the Federation of Hong Kong Industries or The Chinese Manufacturers’ Association of Hong Kong, and also on five in-depth case studies conducted to explore the issues that were revealed in the survey in detail. The study builds cumulatively on previous work on succession in family owned businesses, and identifies eight Critical Success Factors and five Successor Selection Criteria that Chinese founders and successors in family businesses in Hong Kong agree on. The eight Critical Success Factors are: capability and contribution of the successor in the family business; personal characteristics of founder; successor motivated to lead the family business and agrees with the company direction; business environment and the family business scenario to develop the successor in different scenario; fair and planned shareholder changed parallel transfer of power; relationship between founder and successor; corporate culture and organizational structure; and other participants’ view on the management transition of the offspring-successor. Furthermore, the study identifies five Successor Selection Criteria for founders and successors of family businesses in Hong Kong and compares findings with a study using the same framework conducted in Canada and India. The five criteria are: management skills and experience, interpersonal relationships and networks among stakeholders; trust and relationship among family members and owner-manager; self-confidence and commitment of the successor in the family business; family standing and share ownership; and business and working experience of the successor. These are evaluated in terms of their concordance with the non-Chinese FOB literatures, and with the cases studies of Chinese FOBs described in this study. The Thesis concludes that succession issues are even more important for family-owned businesses in Hong Kong than elsewhere, and that insofar as family-owned firms solve their succession problems they will continue to make a vital contribution to business worldwide.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Data analysis -- 5. Factor analysis -- 6. Case studies of succession in family businesses in Hong Kong -- 7. Discussion -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendices

Notes

Bibliography: pages 162-171 "December 2011 This thesis is presented as a partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Business Administration"

Awarding Institution

Macquarie University

Degree Type

Thesis PhD

Degree

DBA, Macquarie University, Macquarie Graduate School of Management

Department, Centre or School

Macquarie Graduate School of Management

Year of Award

2011

Principal Supervisor

John Mathews

Rights

Copyright disclaimer: http://www.copyright.mq.edu.au Copyright Ling Ming Chan 2011. Complete version suppressed due to copyright restrictions. However, on receipt of a Document Supply Request, placed with Macquarie University Library by another library, we will consider supplying a copy of this thesis. For more information on Macquarie University's Document Supply, please contact lib.interlib@mq.edu.au

Language

English

Extent

1 online resources (xv, 171 pages) illustrations, graphs, charts

Former Identifiers

mq:33135 http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/304586 2188865