Um estudo sobre o modelo de gestão e o processo sucessório em empresas familiares

Abstract

This study aims at identifying the characteristics present in the management model and successional process of the family business of the sample. A field research was carried out to collect information, which then generated observations and subsequently led to inferences on how the above mentioned characteristics may have influenced the enterprises’ long or brief life. To accomplish this purpose it was chosen a qualitative approach based both on interviews and the researcher’s inferences. High management businessmen of seventy-one companies were interviewed in Rio Grande do Sul State (southern Brazil) in the following geographical regions: Metropolitan Porto Alegre, Rio dos Sinos and Taquari Valleys. From the data collected, it was analysed and compared the management models of these enterprises; furthermore, they were also compared with the current literature on this theme, in an attempt to relate them and find similarities. From the results it was possible to conclude that large-sized companies, with signif