The professionally managed family-ruled enterprise: Ethnic Chinese business in Singapore

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 693-723

  Tsui Auch, Lai Si ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NONE   (Singapore)

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EID: 2942677029     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2004.00450.x     Document Type: Review

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