The future of family businesses
Presenters : Prof. Elmarie Venter
Learning objectives
The key takeaways for attendees:
- The role and impact of family businesses globally and in South Africa.
- What makes family business successful and sustainable?
- What causes the demise of family businesses?
- Lessons learnt and best practices for family businesses to survive the COVID-19 crisis.
Content
The webinar will cover the following topics:
- Background to family businesses.
- Why should we study family businesses and business families?
- Prominent family businesses and their contributions.
- Family business growth around the world.
- Family businesses in Africa and South Africa.
- Sustainable development for family businesses in South Africa.
- The Successful Trans-generational Entrepreneurship Practices (STEP) Project.
- Framework for enhancing trans-generational potential of African family businesses.
- Challenges facing global and African family businesses.
- Family businesses and COVID-19.
- How South African SMEs can survive the COVID-19 crises: Lessons learnt & best practices.
