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Family businesses are found to acquired non-economic goals as compared to their business counterparts. Nevertheless, small and medium-sized family businesses are found to be facing challenges such as limited inter-knowledge sharing, lack of strategic succession planning and technology adoption that might hinder their goals achievement and sustainability. Thus, this research aims to propose a framework as to preserve the socioemotional wealth of small and medium-sized family businesses through family resources and capability such as knowledge sharing, succession planning and technology readiness. This study also proposes to test the moderating role of technology readiness in the relationship of knowledge sharing and succession planning toward socioemotional wealth of small and medium-sized family business.
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To Cite this Article: Kuan, K. L., Yew, J. S., Aziz, N. N. A., Yunus, N. K. M., & Yazid, Z. N. A. (2021). Preserving Socioemotional Wealth of Small and Medium-Sized Family Businesses: A Propose Framework. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 11(11), 31–41.
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