Family Business Succession: Your Roadmap to Continuity

The first ever comprehensive guide to family business succession planning. This book covers everything from what family business ownership is and how to structure ownership bylaws to business structure, leadership transition, and how a founder exits the business. Drawing on original research, case studies, and white papers, Family Business Succession is a thorough, complete, and "required reading" for every family member working in a family business.

Author: K. Lecouvie, J. Pendergast
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/21/2014
Pages: 213
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781137280893
ISBN10: 1137280891
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Entrepreneurship
- Business & Economics | Management | General
- Business & Economics | Development | Sustainable Development

About the Author

Jennifer M Pendergast, PhD, is a senior associate of the Family Business Consulting Group. Jennifer specialized in strategic planning, family and business governance, family office structure and facilitation. Jennifer has taught strategy at Emory University and Pennsylvania in their business programs. She speaks several times a year and contributes to the thought leadership through publications of her research in Strategic Management Journal and European Management Journal.

Kelly Lecouvie is a Senior Consultant of the Family Business Consulting Group, Inc.(R). Kelly is a family business management consultant working with entrepreneurial and family-run organizations. She specializes in facilitating communication among family members, succession planning, strategic planning, as well as leadership and board development. She serves family business clients across diverse industries. As a faculty member at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Kelly teaches strategic management, entrepreneurship and organization behavior. She has been the recipient of several teaching excellence awards over the last 10 years. As the author of Management and Organization Behavior, Kelly regularly speaks at conferences on management of organizational change, strategic leadership, policy and board development, as well other family business-related topics.