TY - JOUR TI - La empresa familiar, el protocolo y la sucesión familiar JO - ESTUDIOS GERENCIALES;Vol. 30 No. 132 PB - Universidad Icesi PY - 2014 issn 01235923 AB - This article approaches the perceptions that family businesses, experts, organizations, and associations of the Valle de Aburrá (Colombia) have about protocol and family succession. The work is an exploratory research that demonstrated that family businesses are afraid to make a family protocol, mainly due to their ignorance on the subject. Thus, this article aims to make entrepreneurs, university students, researchers, and society in general aware of the important role of family businesses in economic activity and as generators of prosperity and employment. It also attempts to demonstrate thatthe family protocol is an important tool for sustainability, continuity and formalization of family businesses. KW - Facultad de Ciencias Administrativas y Económicas KW - Producción intelectual registrada - Universidad Icesi KW - Estudios Gerenciales KW - Sucesión KW - Actividad económica; KW - Empresas familiares KW - Family business KW - Family protocol UR - http://www.icesi.edu.co/revistas/index.php/estudios_gerenciales/article/view/1812 ER -