Corporate governance and strategic change in SMEs: The effects of ownership, board composition and top management teams

Small Business Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 295-308

  Brunninge, Olof ^a   Nordqvist, Mattias ^a   Wiklund, Johan ^a  

^a JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Small and medium sized enterprises; Strategic change

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548071705     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-006-9021-2     Document Type: Article

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