Family Business: Experience from the Czech Republic

Vojtech Korab and Anastasia Murinova

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Abstract: The chapter deals with problems of small family-owned companies in the Czech Republic. The main aim of the chapter is to describe a family business in the Czech Republic. The partial aims of the chapter are as follows: presentation of family business definition used in investigation of Czech family businesses and model of successful transfer of power to the next generation called "relay." This chapter uses a research methodology of the secondary as well as primary data collection. In the frame of secondary data collection, the data were obtained from the company's websites as well as from the official Amadeus database and those by the Czech Statistical Office. The collection method of primary data was based on interviews with the company's founder and his children and on the questionnaire survey. So gained interview results were transformed into the paper form and then transcribed. The research case study was analysed and focused on the case. This chapter states the results of qualitative research regarding a small family-owned company, called Kaláb--Building Company, Ltd. The concerning research part has the form of a case study. Two models are given in discussion of research results: (1) strategy of small family-owned enterprise and (2) power delegation in a family-owned enterprise.

Keywords: family business; succession management; family business definition; family ties; two-circle model of family business; family system; strategic process; successor; incumbent (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.71020

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