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The financial burden of passing on the legacy: Exploring ownership succession financing in family firms

Vekemans, L., Michiels, A., Steijvers, T., & Molly, V. (2026)

Journal of Small Business Management, online first

Conjoint experiment: 1,520 loan assessments by 95 Belgian bank officers. Professionalisation practices, especially independent board members and external advisors, raise willingness to finance intergenerational ownership succession. States that "research on [succession's] financial dimension remains scarce".

Sourcedoi:10.1080/00472778.2026.26635610 citations (OpenAlex)

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Vekemans, L., Michiels, A., Steijvers, T., & Molly, V. (2026). The financial burden of passing on the legacy: Exploring ownership succession financing in family firms. Journal of Small Business Management, online first.

https://doi.org/10.1080/00472778.2026.2663561

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