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Succession Challenges Facing Family Businesses in Saudi Arabia

Succession Challenges Facing Family Businesses in Saudi Arabia
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Author(s): Ignatius Ekanem (Middlesex University, UK)and Latifah Abdulmohsen Alrossais (Middlesex University, UK)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 25
Source title: Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation in the Middle East
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Philippe W. Zgheib (Lebanese American University, Lebanon)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2066-5.ch007

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Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine how succession planning is carried out in family-owned businesses in Saudi Arabia. The study adopts a qualitative methodology which involves semi-structured, face-to-face interviews. The major findings of the research is that most of the family businesses in Saudi Arabia do not have a proper succession plan due mainly to socio-cultural issues such as mistrust and conflict of interest between the older and the younger members of the family and also subservience of women in the society generally. The implications of the study are discussed including a paradigm shift where women are encouraged and given the opportunity to get involved in the running of their family businesses.

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