Graduation Year
2018
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
D.B.A.
Degree Granting Department
Business Administration
Major Professor
Dahlia E. Robinson, Ph.D.
Co-Major Professor
Robert E. Tiller, D.B.A.
Committee Member
Grandon T. Gill, D.B.A.
Committee Member
Shivendu Shivendu, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Christopher Pantzilis, Ph.D.
Keywords
Acquisitions, Entrepreneurship, Exit planning, Mergers
Abstract
This purpose of this dissertation is to examine the progressive and regressive factors that affect a small business owner’s decision to implement an exit strategy. An exit strategy can be defined as an entrepreneur's strategic plan to sell his or her investment in a company he or she has controlling interest in. An exit strategy gives a business owner a way to reduce or eliminate his or her stake in the business and, if the business is successful, make a substantial profit. Exiting a business is a complicated process which includes among other things, the evaluation, preparation, marketing, and ultimate sale of the business. Progressive factors push an owner to exit and regressive factors pull an owner away from exiting.
Scholar Commons Citation
Pickard, David C., "An Examination of the Progressive and Regressive Factors that Business Owners Consider When Choosing Whether or Not to Implement an Exit Strategy" (2018). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/7560
Included in
Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations Commons, Marketing Commons, Psychology Commons
