A maturidade do processo de sucessão: um estudo multicaso em empresas famíliares da serra gaúcha

Abstract

Family businesses form the economic base that sustains the process of creating goods and services in the Serra Gaúcha, northeast of Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil. In this sense, competition in all segments and the globalization of the economy has required of these companies a level of increasing professionalism. In addition to this challenge, family businesses face internal difficulties, e.g., problems in distinguishing the family, property and business spheres. Therefore, it is necessary for companies to plan their family continuity in the market, developing and managing the succession process for future generations and their own sustainability. In order to see how family businesses manage and deal with this issue, this paper aims to diagnose the stage of maturity of the succession process in family firms of the Serra Gaúcha to provide strategic guidelines for the transfer of corporate control and the business continuity. For this, case studies will be conducted in six family businesses in this region, based on interviews with the successors and, through content analysis of responses to them, will be checked the level of maturity of the succession process in family businesses of this region, in line with the theoretical analysis.