[Abstract] This paper pretends to approach to the Galician business sector and, more specifically, Galician business family on the upper turnover tranche to the 1500 million pesetas, which means more 70% total Galician business sector. We must only focus on some aspects related to planning succession process, which has of fundamental importance in these kinds of organizations. We’ll deal especially about the following aspects: birthright criterion like traditional choice successor criterion; the importance given to the birthright training and professional experience of a successor and finally we will talk about some clearly defined succession plans as a previous way to the family protocols development
