Whatever the Social welfare institutions for the elderly is private or incorporated
foundation , They opted for ' family business ' management mode on the basis of the
identity and trust to the traditional Chinese family relationship. However, due to the
competition environment and organization expansion, there are crisis in this family’s
management mode.
The purpose of this paper was to investigate the organizational characteristics of
family business and the process for succession in the Senior Citizens' welfare
institutions. For the purpose, depth interview method was employed. The researcher
selected 19 organizations and interviewed 29 related persons. Major results were as
follows. First, ownership and management of the family organizations were combined,
and conformed to traditional Chinese family business. Second, the influencing factors
the succession include managerial concept, interest, charity and professional skills.
Third, there were three stages of the process for succession as follows (1) pioneering
stage: emphasis couple work together. (2) growing stage: emphasis on the planning
of the property rights and management rights, and training of the knowledge and
skills. (3)maturing stage: emphasis on the guidance , support and delegating authority.
Accounting to the result ,the concept of “ social enterprises” is new possibility to
offer managers to solve the status quo problems of management and manages forever.
Finally, we suggest: 1.Develop the advantage of family's management, and avoid the
weakness and threat; 2. During the process of splitting up in the organization, pay
attention to accountant responsibility and enterprise's ethics, 3. Social Enterprises is
an important issue in NPO in order to reach the goal that the organization manages
forever.
