Familiness in top management teams: Commentary on Ensley and Pearson's "an exploratory comparison of the behavioral dynamics of top management teams in family and nonfamily new ventures: Cohesion, conflict, potency, and consensus"

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 285-292

  Nordqvist, Mattias ^a  

^a JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

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EID: 27844447698     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2005.00083.x     Document Type: Article

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