A Field Survey on Measuring the Attidudes of Owners/Managers in the Dilemma of Families and Companies

In fact, as a special field of management appears to have emergedin the management of the family business, with its own directionhas been the subject of many researches. One of the importantareas of research subjects have management attitudes of managers,reasons or results oriented to the attitudes have been tested withdifferent variables and parameters. In terms of sustainability offamily businesses, one of the important factors of managersattitudes, are becoming more meaningful with family and businessconcepts to be discussed separately. In fact, each of the twoconcepts together or separately to be addressed reveals animportant dilemma. The owner of the family business which has thedilemma investigate how manages this two-legged process in practice.Presence of family separated from business with an understandingin the form of autonomous areas will be approached to process orboth of them without any problem in the common fieldunderstanding will be discussed. That option is not seen too much.But, basic problem here is how to perform selected. Sometimes,originality which provides benefit in family businesses may not bevalidated for the others.This study also made operating in Konya,Machinery Manufacturing and Automotive Supply Industryenterprises have been selected as study area. Family firms whichcontinue its activities as an important part of family business hasbeen examined whether perceive the business and family togetheror not and as an important indicator this relationship children’splace in the process are discussed. The study, scale which wasdeveloped by Birley et. al. (1999) used, the factors related to thevalidity of test results has been identified 16 sub-hypothesis as 16sub-factors and has been tested this basic hypothesis “Ownermanagers is viewed family and company as a whole, in theirdilemma their children as the basic successor.” Results of theanalysis of the basic hypothesis have been accepted and family andbusiness as a whole has been determined to take.