Administration of Business Succession: How Companies Foster Successors

This book summarizes the problems surrounding business succession in an easy-to-read manner based on the cases of long-established companies, the author's research, and the serialization of Gentosha Gold Online. Additionally, the book aims not only to solve these problems, but also to help bring about innovation in the wake of business succession, based on the knowledge of business administration such as business strategy, management organization, and governance. Furthermore, the author provides hints based on the knowledge of business succession in family businesses that can be universally applied to general SMEs and even large companies.

The success or failure of business succession will affect the future of Japan's industrial vitality, so the Small and Medium Business Administration is providing support in such instances.

This is a basic book for business succession-related parties, professionals, and business school students by an author who received the Practical Management Society Meito Award and the Family Business Society Award for the 2016 "Business Succession Dilemma."