The main purpose of this dissertation is to identify the factors that explain success and failure in SME business transfers. Three key concepts have been defined in the research framework: firm resources, capabilities (of predecessor and successor) and (successor’s) strategic renewal. Altogether these …

Different types of strategic renewal by the successor are identified: organizational change, innovation, combined actions and no action. The main assumption is that renewal after succession improves SME post-transfer performance compared to no actions taken. Also successor’s timing of the takeover is …

A la différence d'Aristote, d'Hobbes, de Locke et de Rousseau et malgré leurs plaidoyers maternalistes, il y avait quand même des voix critiques mais malheureusement en minorité qui rejettaient toute mention des différences entre les sexes pour approuver l'exclusion des femmes dans les droits civiques. …