Retaining and Transitioning Businesses in Communities : Strategies in a New Era (Paperback)

1. Retaining and Transitioning Businesses: Overview of Issues? 2. On the Brink of Business Transition in the U.S.: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities 3. Traditional Business Succession Planning: Effectiveness, Limitations, and Innovative Practices? 4. Employee Ownership in Succession Planning? 5. Using an Employee Stock Ownership Plan for Business Transition? 6. Utilizing Purpose Trusts for Rural Succession and Community Resilience? 7. Employee Ownership Trusts in the U.K.? 8. Retaining Businesses Using Community-Supported Enterprises? 9. Creating Rural Worker Cooperatives in Iowa? 10. Buying Private Businesses in a Single Vertical: A New Approach to Rural Investment? 11. Capital-Driven Business Succession: Main Street Approach