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Case Studies

• "Free Management Essays - Review The Statistics On The Failure Rates Of Family Businesses" (Oxbridge Writers)
  
  Abstract
  This paper reviews the statistics on the failure rates of family businesses; this is disproportionately high compared with business in general. Therefore these businesses face the universal economic problems, and the fact that 40% of family owned businesses survive to the second generation, 12% to the third, and 3% to the fourth.
  
  In this study four successful family owned businesses were studied to identify what they were doing right to perpetuate survival. To study family businesses that had failed could have potentially identified reasons that are not unique to this form of business.
  
  The literature is scant on family owned businesses, with little acknowledgement to their contribution to the economy and society. The majority of the available literature indicates that the problem of survival is in succession planning.
  
  The four family businesses that were studied all had some form of succession planning in place. This paper concludes that lack of or inappropriate succession planning is of the main reasons for failure, and recommends the use of HR tools in the process of selection.
  

Articles

• "What Leaders Really Do" By John P. Kotter (Harvard Business Review)
  
  "They don’t make plans; they don’t solve problems; they don’t even organize people.  What leaders really do is prepare organizations for change and help them cope as they struggle through it."

• "Not Business As Usual: 10 Imperatives for Turnaround Leadership" By Dr. Christine Riordan (ColoradoBIZ Magazine)
  
  "Think back to just a year ago.
  
  Could you have imagined companies that we perceived as stable, like Lehman Brothers, would simply vanish, or that 2008 would mark the largest bank and loan failure in history? Could you have imagined the sheer scale of the automakers crisis resulting in a massive restructuring of the industry or the stock market dropping to less than half of its 2007 value? More precisely, could you have ever imagined the extent of government regulation and bailout that has occurred within the last few months?"

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