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November 18, 2025The Journal of Entrepreneurship

The Impact of Family-orientation Training Design, Trainer Attributes and Trainee Absorption on Family Business SMEs’ Performance: The Mediating Role of Succession Planning

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MKMuhamad Ali Imran Bin KamarudinMMMuhammad Murad

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Analysis reveals succession planning partially mediates outcomes from training design and trainer characteristics in SMEs.

Key Points

  • Family business performance improves significantly with tailored training design and qualified trainers, and succession planning partially mediates these effects.
  • Succession planning plays a crucial mediated role, impacting family business performance driven by training design and trainer attributes.
  • Quantitative methodological approach based on data from 396 SMEs in Malaysia was used to explore relationships among key variables.
  • The findings underscore the importance of human capital development for enhancing family business sustainability.

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Kamarudin et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/692509ddc0ce034ddc352154https://doi.org/10.1177/09713557251398112
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