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Business Family Dynamics

Monday, November 2, 2015

The Relevance of Game Theory to Succession in Family Firms (Part II)

The second half of the paper provides many examples of the application of theory to the process of succession, which, without the expertise of a mathematician, appears visually in the form of many complex equations and is somewhat challenging to read. But even the authors note that although “the equations may seem a bit complicated, the real idea is to understand the outcomes of the analysis,” and therefore professional family business advisors need not wade through the equations in the paper in order to understand the relevance of the application...