Family businesses

According to Acosta (2021), "around 70% of most family businesses last only one generation in Ecuador" (p. 88). This is complemented by the fact that, according to Sotomayor (2022), "80% of companies worldwide are family-owned, so the low survival rate has alarming consequences for the sustainability of the productive sector" (p. 1044). Under these premises, this essay focuses on one of the characteristics of family businesses: their long-term orientation (defined by its acronym LTO) to maintain control and transfer it to the following generations: creator (first generation), institutionalizer (second generation) and expansive (third generation); in contrast to the Ecuadorian case with its decline in recent years.

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Master in Family Business Management from the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar; Lawyer from the Universidad de los Hemisferios; Speaker at the Universidad de Pranà with the case "The dirty hand of Chevron". Recognition by the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico for the topic "Tort Liability and its Environmental Impact in Ecuador".

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According to Acosta (2021), "around 70% of most family businesses last only one generation in Ecuador" (p. 88). This is complemented by the fact that, according to Sotomayor (2022), "80% of companies worldwide are family-owned, so the low survival rate has alarming consequences for the sustainability of the productive sector" (p. 1044). Under these premises, this essay focuses on one of the characteristics of family businesses: their long-term orientation (defined by its acronym LTO) to maintain control and transfer it to the following generations: creator (first generation), institutionalizer (second generation) and expansive (third generation); in contrast to the Ecuadorian case with its decline in recent years.