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Title: | The family CEO's effect on succession planning: founder status, difficulties with letting go and gender differences | Authors: | UMANS, Ine LYBAERT, Nadine STEIJVERS, Tensie VOORDECKERS, Wim |
Issue Date: | 2021 | Publisher: | EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD | Source: | Gender in Management, 36 (5), p. 659-673 | Abstract: | Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate several antecedents of succession planning in family firms: founder status, the family chief executive officer (CEO)’s inability to let go and the family CEO’s gender. Design/methodology/approach This study conducts moderated mediation analysis on a sample of 259 family firms. Findings The results show that family firms led by founders show lower succession planning levels than family firms led by descendant family CEOs. This effect is mediated by the family CEO’s inability to let go. Furthermore, the influence of the emotion of being unable to let go on succession planning is dependent on the family CEO’s gender. This influence is smaller when the family CEO is female than when the family CEO is male. Originality/value The study introduces the family CEO’s inability to let go as a mediator in the founder-succession planning relationship. The results add empirical evidence to the debate about gender influences in family firms. By showing that emotions have a different outcome concerning succession planning depending on the family CEO’s gender, this study enriches gender research. The study also contributes to the family business field by introducing relational theory as a valuable theoretical framework to include gender in succession research. | Keywords: | Family Firms;Leadership succession;Succession planning;Founders;Inability to let go;Gender differences | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/34276 | ISSN: | 1754-2413 | e-ISSN: | 1754-2421 | DOI: | 10.1108/GM-01-2020-0007 | ISI #: | 000660536700001 | Rights: | 2021, Emerald Publishing Limited | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2022 |
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