Despite increasing scholarly interest in the topic of innovation in the family firms, our understanding is still incomplete and inconsistent and the question of innovativeness of successors and family SMEs remains relatively unexplored (Botero et al. 2015). Our empirical research explores the relationship between the knowledge transfer in family SMEs and innovativeness of successors and […]

Purpose – The main purpose of the research is to increase our understanding of the factors which affect innovativeness of successors in smaller family firms (SFF) and what is the role of the founder in strengthening (deterioration) of successors’ innovativeness. Design/methodology/approach – We research which factors affect – supportive or dampening – innovativeness of the […]