Succession is often a critical event in the lifecycle of any organization. Consequently, an extensive body of literature explores family firm succession, and includes studies on integrated succession frameworks. Notwithstanding the large, illuminating body of literature, we believe that family firm succession is worth a fresh reexamination and consolidation to translate the findings into a powerful planning and communication tool, especially as all firms are facing a ‘new normal’ and their leaders are seeking novel perspectives and approaches amidst the COVID-19 disruption. We thus offer a systemic and systematic framework for family firm succession planning, incorporating ideas from the technology intelligence literature. Since relationship building can ease the succession process and relationships are built through communication, we also present a succession roadmap as a communication tool that can assist in making this process part of the regular business routines.

继任通常是任何组织生命周期中的关键事件。因此，大量文献探讨了家族企业的继承，包括对综合继承框架的研究。尽管有大量富有启发性的文献，但我们认为，家族企业的继承值得重新审视和整合，以将研究结果转化为强大的规划和沟通工具，尤其是在所有公司都面临“新常态”并且他们的领导者正在寻求COVID-19 中断中的新观点和方法。因此，我们结合了技术情报文献中的想法，为家族企业的继任计划提供了一个系统和系统的框架。由于建立关系可以简化继任过程，并且通过沟通建立关系，