SUCCESSOR SCHOOL FOR HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS WITH FAMILY BUSINESS BACKGROUND – A PEDAGOGICAL CASE STUDY

Higher education institutions are increasingly recognizing the importance and relevance of teaching entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial teaching. The unspoken assumption in most of our lessons about entrepreneurship is that to become an entrepreneur, you must start your own business. The alternative, taking over an existing business, is rarely recognized. Taking over a family business is also an entry mode into entrepreneurship. The objective of the paper is to describe through a case study, how a higher education institute can support with a successor school concept students’ continuation processes in their own family firms and decision-making processes when considering their future careers.