To be or not to be a future family business leader: the emotional ambivalence of next generation members.

Miruna Radu Lefebvre (1) , Denis Valérie (2)

1 Audencia Recherche
2 ICHEC

This is the first research dealing with next generation members’ ambivalent emotions as a source of cognitive paradoxical tensions in the context of intra-family succession. We conducted exploratory qualitative research to highlight the ambivalent emotions expressed by a sample of 41 next generation individuals from Belgium and Luxembourg when speaking about the succession process and we identified the paradoxical tensions fostered by these ambivalent emotions at a discursive level.

Keywords: discourse; paradoxical tensions; emotional ambivalence; succession; next generation

Domains: Business administration

Miruna Radu Lefebvre, Denis Valérie. To be or not to be a future family business leader: the emotional ambivalence of next generation members.. IFERA, Jun 2015, Hambourg, Germany. ⟨hal-01169512⟩