Publication detail

Family Business: Experience from the Czech Republic

KORÁB, V. MURÍNOVÁ, A.

Original Title

Family Business: Experience from the Czech Republic

Type

book chapter

Language

English

Original Abstract

The chapter deals with problems of small family-owned companies in the Czech Republic. The main aim of the Chapter is description of family business in the Czech Republic. Partial aims are following: presentation of family business definition used in investigation of Czech family businesses and model of successful transfer of power to the next generation called “relay”. The article uses a research methodology of the secondary as well as primary data collection. In the frame of secondary data collection, the data were obtained from the company’s websites, as well as from the official Amadeus database and those by the Czech Statistical Office. The primary data collection method was based on interviews with the company’s founder and his children and on the questionnaire survey. The so gained results of interviews were transformed into the paper form and then transcribed. The research case study was analysed and focused on the case. Chapter states the results of qualitative research regarding a small family-owned company, called Kaláb – Building Company, Ltd. The concerning research part has the form of a case study. Two models are given in discussion of research results: (i) strategy of small family-owned enterprise, and (ii) power delegation in a family-owned enterprise.

Keywords

Family Business, Succession Management, Family Business Definition, Family Ties, Two-Circle Model of Family Business, Family System, Strategic Process, Successor, Incumbent.

Authors

KORÁB, V.; MURÍNOVÁ, A.

Released

24. 1. 2018

Publisher

InTechOpen

Location

Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia

ISBN

978-953-51-3760-3

Book

Entrepreneurship - Development Tendencies and Empirical Approach

Edition number

1

Pages from

160

Pages to

180

Pages count

20

BibTex

@inbook{BUT143220,
  author="Vojtěch {Koráb} and Anastasia {Murínová}",
  title="Family Business: Experience from the Czech Republic",
  booktitle="Entrepreneurship - Development Tendencies and Empirical Approach",
  year="2018",
  publisher="InTechOpen",
  address="Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia

",
  edition="1",
  pages="160--180",
  doi="10.5772/intechopen.71020",
  isbn="978-953-51-3760-3"
}