Spousal leadership and continuity in the family firm
Authors
Published
Family Business Review, vol.
14, issue
1, pp.
25-36,
2001
Abstract
CEO spouses play a key, even if often invisible, role in most family-controlled
corporations. This is particularly true when the special challenges of succession and
continuity become evident. This paper proposes a typology of spouse styles and their
possible influence on succession and continuity.