Cambridge Business Magazine: The ‘narrative’ of family business succession

How family businesses are managing the succession from one generation to the next? Research co-authored by Paul Tracey, Professor of Innovation & Organisation at Cambridge Judge Business School, finds that successors in family firms often cast legitimacy on their appointment through the use of “narratives” – oral, written or filmed accounts or events that convince others  that they are the best qualified.

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