The bulleye: A systems approach to modeling family firms

Family Business Review

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 301-319

  Pieper, Torsten M ^a   Klein, Sabine B ^b  

^a KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EBS BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Germany)

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EID: 36048988796     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6248.2007.00101.x     Document Type: Article

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