Influence of Corporate Succession Planning and Generational Changeover. Case of Family-owned Hardware Trades in Harare Central Business District (Zimbabwe)

      Аннотация: The inquiry papyraceous sought after to determine the agent that persuasion succession planning and generational change in small family-owned ironmongery businesses in Harare Central Business District in the Zimbabwean capital metropolitan. Harare is the biggest city in Zimbabwe and has the highest multitude of recorded lineage owned businesses. By means of the Mixed Method Research (MMR) which was QUAN-qual, denotating that this meditation was primarily quantitative with a slender qualitative constituent. The researches patience was pragmatism and the investigation intend was figurative. This investigation paper recommends that top management of family-owned businesses ought to disentangle comprehensive descent planning and generational strategies for continuity focussing on all the forecaster variables review in the contemplation. It was also recommended that further researches be done on other factors that affect race sketch and generational change in kindred-owned other than hardware businesses in Harare Central Business District.

Ключевые слова: Small business management, Family Business, Succession Planning, strategic management, Leadership and Change Management