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The Effect of Siblings Joining on Career Choice Intentions of Offspring to Join the Family Enterprise

Koozegar Ghadimi, Amirpoyan | 2017

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 50911 (44)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Management and Economics
  6. Advisor(s): Khalili Nasr, Arash
  7. Abstract:
  8. Family businesses comprise the majority of businesses in the world and in Iran as well, However, many of them fail in their succession to the next generation. Hence, the factors influencing family business succession has been studies by many researchers in the past decades. To contribute to the present literature, our study addresses one of the factors which is assumed to be influential on children choice about whether to enter their family business. The literature proposes that the presence of the siblings in the family business has both positive and negative effects on one's decision about whether to enter the family business or not. The positive effect stems from one's desire to work where their beloved ones work. But at the same time, the lower possibility of getting a uniqe position in the business due to the already established presence of the siblings, demotivates the rest from entering the family business. To address the aformentioned ambiguity, the present study investigates the issue in 60 family businesses, which are oil & gas contractors, through a standard questionnaire. The result of our analysis shows a meaningful positive relationship between the presence of the siblings in the family business and the tendency of the rest of the children to enter the business, no matter what their gender is. The other finding of our study is that female children are more likely to get employed outside the family business in comparison to male children. In addition, age and education were not found to be influential on the dicision to enter the family business
  9. Keywords:
  10. Succession Planning ; Succession in Family Firms ; Strategic Management ; Family Business ; Persistence

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