Family - business - development

Small and medium-sized enterprises are the dominant form of enterprise; according to estimates, families run 65-80 percent of these companies. In our paper we first review the main approaches of literature about family businesses. The aim of our research is the analysis of the main features of Hungarian SMEs, mainly of family businesses, and the mapping of their demands for development and training. Since in literature we found a lot of characteristics of family businesses wich are different from non-family businesses, we supposed that this differences appear in demands for development and training. According to our empirical results, there is no significant difference between family and non-family businesses. the majority of challenges experienced by family businesses are identical with those faced by non-family businesses