Significados do processo de sucessão em uma empresa familiar

Abstract

The objective was to identify the meanings present in the discourses of family members about the succession process. So, we interviewed the founder, the descendants who participate and non-participating in the management of the business and the non-blood relatives. With the construction of a network of meanings for the succession process, two analytical categories arose: one focused on an emergent perspective and the other focused on a deliberate perspective. Rather than being a mere stage in the business life cycle, succession in family business represents a cultural fact, involving the identification of elements that are present but not apparent.