The re-emergence of family-based enterprises in East Central Europe: What can be learned from family business research in the western world?

Family Business Review

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 171-188

  Donckels, Rik ^a   Lambrecht, Johan ^b  

^a Director of the Small Business Research Institute   (Netherlands)

^b Small Business Research Institute   (Netherlands)

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EID: 34447265138     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6248.1999.00171.x     Document Type: Article

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