From Legacy to Entrepreneurship: Transformation through Succession and OD Practices

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K13556
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 07080:Business administration-related
• Research Institution: Hiroshima University
• Principal Investigator: Makino Emi 広島大学, 学術・社会連携室, 准教授 (90706962)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: アントレプレナーシップ / アトツギベンチャー / エフェクチュエーション / ファミリービジネス / 組織開発 / 事業創造

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Entrepreneurs who succeed family businesses face both opportunities and challenges stemming from legacies and traditions. This research project looked at how organizational development practices like appreciative inquiry summits can inform how to promote entrepreneurial activity at an atotsugi venture (Japanese for successor startups). Since many successor entrepreneurs are young and inexperienced, a study of student innovation makers was conducted, which identified the importance of pragmatic prototyping at an early stage.
This project also identified the importance of socioemotional wealth (SEW) in family businesses. Typical startup acceleration programs do not consider SEW as an outcome variable. SEW may be an overlooked component that may be incorporated into programs specializing on atotsugi ventures to increase the chance of success in promoting sustainable entrepreneurial activity

Free Research Field

経営学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

事業承継型ベンチャー（アトツギベンチャー）の育成は、地域経済の活性化につながるとして注目を集めている。ゼロから始めるスタートアップとは文脈が異なり、急成長型スタートアップのアクセラレーションプログラムから応用できる点と、そうでない点を一部、明らかにした。ＭＶＰには遠く及ばない、解像度が低いプロトタイプづくりの重要性と、社会的情緒資産の価値向上を視野に入れることが必要である。