Family Owned Business Institute

Research Scholar's Abstracts 2004 - Patricia Frishkoff, Paul Frishkoff

Callings of the Farm: Case Studies of Successors and their Children in New Zealand
Patricia Frishkoff, Paul Frishkoff
2004

This study will examine multi-generational family farms in New Zealand, seeking to identify non-economic factors that encourage successors to remain on or return to the farm. Interviews, conducted with a farm successor and one of his or her school-aged children, will focus on stories and artifacts. The project objectives are:

To explore non-economic (soft-side) reasons behind succession, specifically by examining stories and artifacts
To seek sources of strong, positive feelings that account for continuation of farming from the perspective of succeeding generation farmers
To learn what those successors are teaching their children, by asking both the successors and the youth