Not Like My Parents! The Intention to Become a Successor of Latin American Students with Entrepreneur Parents

Gianni Romaní, Karla Soria-Barreto, Guillermo Honores-Marín, Rafael Ruiz Escorcia and Javier Rueda
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Gianni Romaní: Centro de Emprendimiento y de la Pyme, Núcleo de Investigación en Emprendimiento y Alternativas de Financiamiento, Facultad de Economía y Administración, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta 1240000, Chile
Karla Soria-Barreto: Escuela de Ciencias Empresariales, Núcleo de Investigación en Emprendimiento y Alternativas de Financiamiento, Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo 1780000, Chile
Guillermo Honores-Marín: Escuela de Ciencias Empresariales, Núcleo de Investigación en Emprendimiento y Alternativas de Financiamiento, Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo 1780000, Chile
Rafael Ruiz Escorcia: Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, Ingenierías y Arquitectura—Corporación Universitaria del Caribe CECAR, Sincelejo 700001, Colombia
Javier Rueda: Facultad de Administración de Empresas, Universidad de Investigación y Desarrollo UDI, Bucaramanga 680004, Colombia

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 3, 1-25

Abstract: The article presents an extension of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to identify, in a Latin American university, the students who are children of entrepreneurial parents and the determinants of their willingness to succeed them. The TPB is used as a basis to analyse the intention to be a successor, and three constructs are added: affective commitment, normative commitment and parental role model. The analysis is carried out using structural equations via the partial least squares (PLS) method, which allows for the study of multiple relationships between construct-type variables. The sample includes 16,185 Latin American university students from the Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students’ Survey 2018 database. The results show that, in Latin American students, the determining factors in the intention to be a successor are attitude, the affective and normative commitment and the parental role model. The latter has a negative and significant effect on the intention to be a successor in the family business. One of the practical implications of this study has to do with the development of an affective feeling of the offspring towards the family business. Generating this kind of attachment since childhood could lead to achieving a greater relevance of the parental role model and a stronger interest in the succession of the business.

Keywords: university students; succession intention; Global University Spirit Students’ Survey (GUESSS); theory planned behaviour; Latin America; family business succession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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