The family Firm in Industrial Capitalism: International Perspectives on Hypotheses and History

Business History

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 17-43

  Church, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0040906028     PISSN: 00076791     EISSN: 17437938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00076799300000127     Document Type: Article

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