Rozhdestvenskaya E.Yu. Continuity of business and welfare as a new option for social mobility in the Russian context. In: Social mobility in an increasingly complex society: objective and subjective aspects ...

Abstract

This chapter is about a fairly new phenomenon for Russian entrepreneurship - the prospect of continuity in business and wealth, implying the involvement of the second generation in a family of entrepreneurs in the business of their parents. Estimates of the chances of the second generation, potential successors, to reproduce social status and successfully transfer the business are quite high. This is facilitated by starting opportunities, primarily the value homogeneity of parents and children, as well as an unprecedentedly high level of professional training, as an object of parental investment in the future of both the children themselves and the business. The risks of unsuccessful business transfer also have contours outlined by the study: they are associated with a more critical assessment by successors of the availability of intra-family discourse for discussing both business and welfare issues.

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