Sustainability and growth of family businesses

Our goal was to develop curriculum specialisation (second year of MSc) that is novel and innovative; it also included the reworking of theories available to large companies to family businesses, which were unique at European level and well applicable in the domestic environment (for example, if smaller companies want to merge or become suppliers to multinational companies).

Results:

• Collating – Collection and systemizing of research results
• 4 training modules in English (partly face-to-face, partly e-learning)
• Fundamentals of SME management (Strategy, Marketing, Logistics… )
• Entrepreneurial finance (From controlling performance to anticipation and management of exit)
• Corporate Governance, HR, Immigrants’ Integration
• Transition issues (Psychology of transmission of power, engineering of the process of transition)  
• Work-based learning plan