TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR OR NOT TO BE: THE DILEMMA OF THE 2nd and 3rd GENERATION IN FAMILY BUSINESS

The purpose of this study is to measure the entrepreneurship and career tendencies of family business owners and of their 2nd or 3rd generation children. For this purpose, a structured interview study is carried out with companies in Ardahan and Sivas Chamber of Commerce and Industry. 74 heirs of the 57 enterprises that are family-owned businesses where 1st and 2nd generations work together, which is confirmed by the chambers, are participated in the interview. The data was analysed in the SPSS analysis program. According to the results of the analysis, heirs state that they have career plans, they make their career plans by themselves and they wanted to start their own businesses if they were not in family businesses. The reasons for working in family business of participant heirs are listed as respect for family work, support for their families and families asked for working together, respectively