Table 4.

Future lines of research

Cluster	Future lines of research
(1) Impact of Succession on Innovation	• How innovation positionings shape succession in family companies • How to transform succession processes into innovation • Factors influencing innovation in family companies with family successors versus external successors. • What are the best conditions for innovation during succession processes
(2) Succession and Sharing of Knowledge	• Why do the innovation activities of traditional industries stagnate in family businesses? • How does innovation rise or decrease over the course of generations? • In what way does the influence of predecessors alter the production of innovation by their successors?
(3) Obstacles to Innovation	• Studying which factors impact on the innovation capacities of family companies • What types of innovation are subject to influence by the characteristics of company founders