O processo de sucessão familiar em empresas de pequeno porte: um estudo exploratório

Abstract

The aim of this work is the process of succession in small business companies - a exploratory study. The research was developed in Ponta Grossa - Brazil. The main objective of the research was to analyze the factors that intervene with the process of succession in familiar small companies in the industrial sector. The specific objectives were to describe the structure of power in the studied companies, as well as its characterization; to analyze the profile of the entrepreneur and founder of the company, as well as the successor’s profile, and its relation between company X family in the administration; to describe how it is thought, for the involved persons, the process of transference of power of the first one for the second generation; to identify which are the obstacles that intervene with the development of the process of professionalization of the companies. The companies who had participated of the research had been selected by: to be living deeply the participation accomplishes of the successors (2nd generation) in the activities of the company, also being these prepared to assume the positions of the founders (1st generation) as manager of the business, aiming at the continuity of the company in the market. It was opted to the model of scientific procedure that considers three stages: the rupture, the construction and the verification. The field research was carried through with a qualitative boarding through structuralized interviews, structuralized questionnaires and direct or personal comments. The successors, entrepreneurs (founders), and relatives involved in the company were interwied. From there, the analysis was subdivided in four groups of questionings: characterization of the companies; profile of the entrepreneurs; successory planning and professionalization; and succession problems. The research disclosed a great linking between the world of the family and the company, worlds that are equivalent, interlaced from the first to the second generation, as well as deep difficulties in establishing organized and planned methods aiming the succession.