Descripción

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31948/rev.criterios.25.1-art The present work is made up of one of the results of the research entitled 'Factors of success of the family companies of Manizales, Pereira and Armenia', which includes the study of 27 cases of regional societies, in order to determine the main factors of success that affect the administrative and organizational orders for a family business. The document expresses the importance of human management, establishing it as a notable factor for the achievement of success, stability and survival of family businesses in the coffee belt, having as its main foundation, the appropriate practices of governance and human management that generate an orientation and concrete direction for the companies that were taken as subjects of sample and analysis. The disappearance of family businesses is usually due to determining factors such as succession in management, the lack of practices directed towards good human management, and the deficiency of professional competences of family members to exercise in due form the assigned positions, elements that must be strengthened to avoid closing these types of companies.