Comparing succession estimates in 2018 to early 2022, the number of businesses that search for a successor increased.
Nevertheless, Dr Nadine Schlömer-Laufen, Dr Markus Fels and Olga Suprinovič assume that economically successful companies will continue to find successors. Their article "Unternehmensnachfolgen in Deutschland" for the journal "Recht der Familienunternehmen" summarises the current succession estimate's central results and specifically addresses the problems in estimating future successions.
