Business Transfers, Family Firms and Entrepreneurship

Part 1. Definitions. 1. Business transfer: Historical perspectives, definitions and the transfer process Berangere Deschamps. 2. Revisiting the entrepreneurial exit decision process: A decision-making model Marie-Josee Drapeau, Maripier Tremblay. Part 2. Family business transfers. 3. Emotions in family business succession Soumaya SFEIR. 4. Family business transfer: A stressful event for successors Florence Guiliani, Luis Cisneros. 5. The making of family entrepreneurs: How heirs become entrepreneurs and take over a family business Paulette Robic, Dominique Barbelivien, Nicolas Antheaume. 6. Succession and family business in between emotional and financial issues: The role of governance with a two-tier system Celine Barredy. 7. Succession and strategic renewal in family firms: Insights from a French family firm Didier Chabaud, Mariem Hannachi, Hedi Yezza. Part 3. Internal business transfers to employees. 8. Towards a better understanding of SME employee buyouts Catherine Thevenard-Puthod, Cedric Favre. 9. Is a workers cooperative an effective means for transferring SMEs? Marie-Christine Barbot-Grizzo. Part 4. External business transfer. 10. A research framework for external business transfers of SMEs Berangere Deschamps, Susanne Durst. 11. The legitimacy of the external successor: Issues and means of acquisition Lyes Mazari, Sandrine Berger-Douce, Berangere Deschamps. 12. From outsider to insider: Organisational socialisation in takeover situations Sonia Boussaguet. 13. How to effectively support external buyers in a post-business transfer situation? Catherine Thevenard-Puthod. Part 5. Women in business transfers. 14. Family as an institution to investigate the role of women in the transfer of family businesses Paulette Robic. 15. Gender and succession in the family business Christina Constantinidis. 16. Daughters: Invisible heroes of family businesses? Audrey Missonier, Annabelle Jaouen, Beatrice Albert. 17. Female external successors: Difficulties during the business transfer process and types of support required Berangere Deschamps, Catherine Thevenard-Puthod.