Friday, November 29, 2013

Industry prescribes one recipe to all

 


Industry complexity is what appears to be defining a succession pattern for all companies which constitute the industry. The higher the degree of complexity is, the more resources companies are to invest in business succession to satisfy stakeholders and vice versa.

The most resource intensive pattern of business succession is the talent pool, while the least costly is the ad hoc reaction.  

Stakeholders’ satisfaction with the outcomes of succession will be the highest, should the pattern chosen for business succession match industry complexity. At the same time stakeholders opine on succession results negatively in cases of mismatch.

It is important to notice that SMEs operating in complex industries usually lack resources for appropriate - prescribed - patterns like the long-term heir and the talent pool. Instead, they tend to apply less laborious and expensive patterns. That leads to unsuccessful successions and leaves involved stakeholders dissatisfied. In other words, each industry signals its companies which succession pattern is to be used, and those who do not recognize it fail in business transfer.

It works like this:

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