Ahmad Zeshan, Chan Wai Meng, Oon Elaine Yen Nee
Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Front Psychol. 2023 Feb 9;14:1043270. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1043270. eCollection 2023.
In this paper, we investigate two research queries pertaining to the success of small family business succession. First, we examine how the Big-5 personality traits of descendant entrepreneurs influence the success of their family business succession. Second, we investigate whether descendant entrepreneurs whose personality traits are congruent with the values of their family business, would lead to the success of their family business succession, through the mediating role of descendant entrepreneur-family business value congruence (DE-FBVC).
We rely on the person-organization fit theory for our conceptual framework and we collected primary data from 124 respondents designated as chairman and managing directors in small family businesses.
Our results show that a descendant entrepreneur's openness, extroversion, conscientiousness, and agreeableness traits are likely to lead to successful family business succession, but a descendant entrepreneur with neuroticism trait is unlikely to do so. In addition, our results reveal that the DE-FBVC mediates the relationship between openness and extroversion traits with succession success positively, but between neuroticism trait and succession success negatively. By contrast, we find that DE-FBVC does not mediate the relationship between conscientiousness and agreeableness traits with succession success.
The findings of our study suggest that while four of the Big-5 personality traits matter for the success of small family business succession, specific personality traits of descendant entrepreneurs which are found to be congruent with the values of their family business, will also lead to succession success.
在本文中，我们研究了两个与小型家族企业传承成功相关的研究问题。第一，我们考察了后代企业家的大五人格特质如何影响其家族企业传承的成功。第二，我们研究了那些人格特质与家族企业价值观相符的后代企业家，是否会通过后代企业家-家族企业价值观一致性（DE-FBVC）的中介作用，实现其家族企业传承的成功。
我们依据人-组织匹配理论构建概念框架，并从124位小型家族企业的董事长兼总经理那里收集了原始数据。
我们的结果表明，后代企业家的开放性、外向性、尽责性和宜人性特质可能会带来家族企业传承的成功，但具有神经质特质的后代企业家则不太可能如此。此外，我们的结果显示，DE-FBVC在开放性和外向性特质与传承成功之间起正向中介作用，但在神经质特质与传承成功之间起负向中介作用。相比之下，我们发现DE-FBVC在尽责性和宜人性特质与传承成功之间不起中介作用。
我们研究的结果表明，虽然大五人格特质中的四项对小型家族企业传承的成功很重要，但发现与家族企业价值观相符的后代企业家的特定人格特质，也会带来传承成功。
