The clear majority of family business with succession plans will survive well beyond the second generation.

Succession Plans

Strategic planning processes that identify and develop new leaders who can replace old leaders when they leave, retire, or pass away.

Family Business

A commercial organization in which decision-making is influenced by multiple generations of a family related by blood, marriage, or adoption, who are closely involved with its operations.

Second Generation

Typically refers to the offspring of immigrants in a new country, or the next version or iteration of a product or technology.