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Strategic Pre-Planning: The Role of Interim Executives in Business Continuity and Crisis Management for Family-Owned Businesses

Christian Buhagiar of GlassRatner stresses that sudden death or incapacity of a family business founder often triggers leadership gaps, conflict, and creditor unease, and argues that pre-planning for interim executive appointments can preserve value, stabilize operations, and maintain stakeholder confidence—avoiding the kind of disorder that frequently tips family enterprises into distress or insolvency.