The purpose of this paper is to verify the problems facing family SMEs and to identify the gap between existing research and reality. Family SMEs have various problems, but due to high specificity of these, its problems have not been much focused. However, family SMEs are very important, because they contribute to the world economy. So, to focus family SMEs are particularly meaningful. Some economic theories consider the family firm to be an organization with a beneficial organizational structure. Unification of ownership and management and more personal human capital was recognized as a strength of family businesses. However, in my opinion, family business believes that it has an organization with many problems while having such excellent features. Therefore, we interviewed two family business companies in the manufacturing industry. By interviews in this paper, its problems and gaps between existing research and reality are clarified specifically. There are many problems related to human capital, successor and innovation. And a potential problem that family SMEs managers and family members have little knowledge about management also exist. In this papers, we believe it is necessary to compare between family SMEs and non-family SMEs and further investigate in order to understand the problem more deeply about such a problem about such a problem and to find solutions for problems of family SMEs.
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