Important Attributes of Successors in Family Businesses: An Exploratory Study

Abstract

Respondents from 485 family firms in Canada rated integrity and commitment to the business as the most important attributes of a successor. Results indicated that the older the family business and the longer the respondent's tenure in that business, the more important these attributes became. Birth order and gender were rated the least important, despite the attention the literature has given to those attributes.

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