Skip to content
  • Return to Blog Network Home
  • About Our Team
  • Chair of Family-Owned Business
  • Blog in Spanish
Menu
Family Business
  • Family

Succession in family firms: navigating the power paradox

Jeroen NeckebrouckDecember 15, 2021

Many family business leaders hold two conflicting emotions as they near retirement: on one hand, the desire to pass the baton to their children, and on the other, the desire to retain control for as long as possible. These opposing aims can significantly affect the parent-child dynamic and result in a paradox in which the […]

Álvaro San Martín

Holder of the Chair
Álvaro San Martín is a professor in the Managing People in Organizations Department and the academic director of the Executive MBA in Madrid. His research interests include cultural psychology, team dynamics and socioecological psychology.

Follow this blog

Subscribe by email   Follow LinkedIn   Contact us

Newsletter Subscription

Sign up for our monthly newsletter!

Recent Posts

  • Why family businesses should develop people, not just create wealth
  • When meritocracy meets bloodlines: the family business succession trap
  • Deloitte “Defining the family business landscape” report
  • IESE EVENT: Forging next-generation leaders in family firms
  • IESE EVENT: Families as responsible shareholders

Categories

  • Business
  • Family
  • Highlights
  • In My Experience
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Ownership
  • What's New

Tags

alliances annual report board of directors business model co-philanthropy communication competitiveness corporate governance decision making digitalization Engagement event external stakeholders Family Business family council family dynamics family firm family legacy family purpose family succession family values female leadership financial strategy generational change growth holmstrom informal institutions innovation leadership legacy meritocracy ownership ownership strategy private equity purpose resilience shared family purpose shared values shareholders socioemotional wealth strategy succession trust values virtues

IESE Business School University of Navarra

  • Legal Notice
  • Terms of Use