Processos de sucessão familiar em organizações agroindustriais da região sudoeste do Paraná: principais fontes de conflito

Abstract

The succession process is one of the most critical points in the trajectory of family organizations. Thus, this study was dedicated to analyzing how the conflict management process is established in agro-industrial organizations in the process of family succession in the Southwest region of Paraná. For this, a selection of ten family organizations in the agribusiness sector that went through the succession process was defined, seeking to characterize the organization, its founders, successors and similarities in the succession processes, verifying elements of conflict management that allowed to identify the main factors causes of conflicts and the strategies adopted by family organizations during the process. The results show that the strategies used to choose successors were, in most cases, experience and professionalization, and in most organizations, this choice was determined by the family. As well, the main reasons that led to the succession were the founders' advanced age and reasons of (illness/disability). It was also found that family relationships influenced the organizations and that, even after the succession process took place, most of those who succeeded continued to interfere in the decisions. Thus, the biggest challenge pointed out in the succession process in the researched family organizations was the conflict between heirs, with the dialogue between the conflicting parties being the most used strategy by organizations in solving the main conflicts. Likewise, it was identified that the indication of the successor was one of the most critical points within family organizations.