Morten Bennedsen, of France's INSEAD business school, and Kasper Nielsen, of Copenhagen business school, conducted a study of succession in more than 5,300 private firms in Denmark and also found that relatives significantly underperformed outsiders.Although family companies on the whole are trusted more than other firms, that advantage can quickly dissipate.
Eugene Odum's 1969 paper, The Strategy of Ecosystem Development, marks a watershed moment in approaches to the study of succession, ecosystem change caused by discrete disturbances.
The country has lots of fine family-owned companies run by dynamic managers, but on average family firms perform worse than others: a study of successions in 229 firms by the Bank of Italy found that returns diminished in companies where the owner's heir took charge and increased under new bosses unrelated to the founder.Like too many other businesses, the café operates largely in cash.
Although most studies of succession have focused on plants, insects show successional patterns associated with changes in vegetation, and the relatively rapid heterotrophic succession in decomposing wood and animal carcasses has contributed much to successional theory.
The preeminent questions in microbial ecology today can be traced back to the original diversity surveys of van Leeuwenhoek and ecological studies of succession in the late 17th century.
Cowles's dissertation, published in 1899 as an extended article in the Botanical Gazette (an important journal founded by his teacher John Coulter), became a classic study of plant succession.
A study of CEO succession in 2002 at 2,500 big publicly traded companies around the world by Booz Allen Hamilton, a consultancy, found that two out of five of all chief-executive successions that year were "involuntary, performance-related turnover"—or, to put it bluntly, sackings for underachievement.
Synchronic studies are the best approach for more rapid study of plant succession on ecosystems with low resilience.
He has also authored eight books, including The Hero's Farewell, an award-winning study of CEO succession, and another best seller, Firing Back, a study on leadership resilience in the face of adversity.
In a study of the succession of fungi associated with the decay of a 120-year-old healthy beech tree uprooted by strong winds, B. citrina was found on the wood about three years after the fall.
A six-year study of the succession of fungal flora appearing on freshly cut stumps of Poplar trees (Populus canadensis) showed that S. scutellata appeared roughly in the middle of the fungal succession (about 2 4 years after the tree had been cut), along with the species Ascocoryne sarcoides, Scutellinia cervorum, and Lasiosphaeria spermoides.
