class and heritage capital effect on continuity if family business: case study: khojasteh family business.

Continuity of a family business has a direct relation to heritage capital and family class. Low percent of family businesses trans to the next generation. Khojasteh family business which is active in texture and wooling termeh, nowadays enter the 4th generation of it’s life. This family business launched in 1885 by hossein abbas and followed by his son khalil. After khalil, his sons: mohammadreza and mohammad sadegh continue his way. And now zeinab, mohammadraza’s daughter has an important role in family as 4th generation. The main question is: why and how this business continue? And what family class and heritage capital do about this continuity?. In this article we focus on heritage capital and it’s role on continuity about this business, by supposing other elements. And we investigate some types of family management models on this family and also analyze the role of family about this question. Oral history & documents has basic role in this article.