Surviving the business in the long run: a study of family oriented SMEs in developing economies

Kuruppuge, Ravindra Hewa; Gregar, Aleš

dc.title	Surviving the business in the long run: a study of family oriented SMEs in developing economies	en
dc.contributor.author	Kuruppuge, Ravindra Hewa
dc.contributor.author	Gregar, Aleš
dc.relation.ispartof	CBU International Conference Proceedings 2017: Innovations in Science and Education
dc.identifier.issn	1805-997X Scopus Sources, Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR
dc.date.issued	2017
utb.relation.volume	5
dc.citation.spage	168
dc.citation.epage	171
dc.event.title	International Conference of Central-Bohemia-University (CBUIC) - Innovations in Science and Education
dc.event.location	Prague
utb.event.state-en	Czech Republic
utb.event.state-cs	Česká republika
dc.event.sdate	2017-03-22
dc.event.edate	2017-03-24
dc.type	conferenceObject
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Central Bohemia University
dc.identifier.doi	10.12955/cbup.v5.919
dc.relation.uri	http://ojs.journals.cz/index.php/CBUIC/article/view/919
dc.subject	business longevity SMEs	en
dc.subject	tacit knowledge	en
dc.subject	family business	en
dc.description.abstract	Whilst the majority of family oriented SMEs are suffering from survival problems in the long term, some businesses perform successfully over generations. This article explores the emerging themes which are related to the business longevity of family oriented SMEs in Sri Lanka. Addressing a lack of knowledge in the area, our strategy of enquiry used a qualitative approach coupled with semi-structured interviews; 17 owner-managers of family-oriented SMEs were interviewed and the results were subsequently transcribed for the analyses. The results indicated that the founders' tacit knowledge of producing goods or services, consequently transferred to heirs in family oriented SMEs, drive the survival of businesses for longer periods in Sri Lanka.	en
utb.faculty	Faculty of Management and Economics
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10563/1008158
utb.identifier.rivid	RIV/70883521:28120/17:63517956!RIV18-MSM-28120___
utb.identifier.obdid	43877806
utb.identifier.wok	000439408200028
utb.source	d-wok
dc.date.accessioned	2018-08-29T08:26:57Z
dc.date.available	2018-08-29T08:26:57Z
dc.description.sponsorship	Internal Grant Agency of FaME TBU [IGA/FaME/2016/001]
dc.rights	Attribution 3.0 Unported
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
dc.rights.access	openAccess
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Kuruppuge, Ravindra Hewa
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Gregar, Aleš
utb.fulltext.affiliation	Ravindra Hewa Kuruppuge,1 Aleš Gregar2 1 Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic, kuruppuge@yahoo.com 2 Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic, gregar@fame.utb.cz
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utb.fulltext.sponsorship	Authors of this article are grateful to the Internal Grant Agency of FaME TBU No. IGA/FaME/2016/001: Enhancing Business Performance through Employees’ Knowledge Sharing, for financial support to carry out this research.
utb.wos.affiliation	[Kuruppuge, Ravindra Hewa; Gregar, Ales] Tomas Bata Univ, Fac Management & Econ, Zlin, Czech Republic
utb.fulltext.projects	IGA/FaME/2016/001