High performance: Ownership and decision-making in SMEs

Management Decision

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 382-396

  O'Regan, Nicholas ^a   Sims, Martin ^a   Ghobadian, Abby ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate ownership; Decision making; Organizational performance; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 19744368706     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740510589760     Document Type: Article

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