Özet:

Having started to develop since the second half of twentieth century, Family businesses make up approximately %50 in the world, %90 in Turkey of all businesses. For that reason, presenting a good economic performance and ensuring sustainability of Family businesses plays a critical role for the whole world economies. Yet, the rate of taking-over the business from the founder of these businesses to the next generation gradually decreases. When the literature review, a lot of important reasons appears to be about this situation, like having more system compared to normal businesses. In the study, how the systems of Family businesses (family, business and management) effects the performance of the business through Stakeholders Salience Model (power, legitimacy and urgency) and which system will improve this performance best, is researched. Studying how the impact, salience and stakes of each system will affect economic performance of the business separately would fill that gap in the literature. In this research, in 12 provinces which consist of %71 of Family businesses in Turkey (İstanbul, Ankara, Bursa, İzmir, Konya, Gaziantep, Denizli, Kocaeli, Adana, Tekirdağ, Kayseri and Mersin), data from 308 businesses that are large-sized in terms of the number of workers they employ, are analyzed with Structural Equation Model. 

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