Family businesses are a quintessential element of
any economic society and need to be maintained
to ensure a successful economic environment. Family
businesses encounter similar problems to non-family
businesses during the growth and development stages
of the business. However, family businesses struggle
even more so than non-family business when making
the transition from one generation to the next. At
the centre of this book is an exploratory research
study that examines family businesses in Ireland and
their succession and taxation planning strategies.
The work centres on...

At the core of this work is an explanatory research study that seeks to investigate the learning strategies of family businesses in Ireland, in the small and medium-sized enterprise sector (SME), within the framework of the theory of the learning organisation. There is much debate about the benefits of becoming a learning organisation. The benefits of adopting a learning organisation culture are that it ensures that the business is adaptive to changes in the environment, is reactive to developments in markets and is proactive to its customers needs, wants and desires. Family businesses have...