El Trabajo Directivo y el ciclo de vida de las empresas familiares Pymes de la ciudad de Machala – Ecuador

Abstract

This research work focuses its study and analysis on the current process that exists between the succession of Directors (family members), and the life cycle of family SMEs in the city of Machala - Ecuador, specifically in the banana sector. Be one of the most important in the country. This study is carried out as a response to the question that is always present in the market of how durable a family business can be once it faces a generational change after the departure of the founder. First a vast theoretical explanation was made about the different models of family businesses adaptable to the succession of executives and to the life cycle, later reference will be made about the study and finally a proposal of a succession plan adaptable to a banana SME. The research method used is of qualitative reasoning and the methodology will be with a descriptive and correlational design through the collection of quantitative and qualitative information and its level of relationship between variables. Finally, it is concluded that there is a dependency of the life cycle with respect to the generational change of the Executives that the family SMEs of the banana sector of the city of Machala carry out, for this reason it is necessary to have the appropriate and important tools such as the plan of succession, among others.