Případová studie podnikatelského úspěchu rodiny Schichtů

This thesis analyses the entrepreneurial success of the Schicht family through a case study of their business, which operated as a family enterprise for nearly one hundred years and passed through three generations of ownership. The aim of the thesis is to answer five research questions concerning entrepreneurial role models, strategic milestones, the value core, mechanisms of intergenerational continuity, and organizational resilience. The thesis combines a qualitative reconstruction of the family's entrepreneurial history with the analytical application of social learning theory, the critical incident technique, socioemotional wealth theory, and family succession models. The findings indicate that the entrepreneurial thinking of key family members was shaped primarily through daily exposure to the family business rather than through formal education. The firm's long-term resilience rested on a combination of technological flexibility, vertical integration of the supply chain, systematically cultivated social capital, and the ability to culturally legitimize the brand in a linguistically plural environment. The thesis further demonstrates that the dissolution of a specific firm does not necessarily imply the end of a family's entrepreneurial continuity, and formulates transferable principles for contemporary family businesses facing generational succession.