Promoting family: A contingency model of family business succession

Family Business Review

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-30

  Royer, Susanne ^a   Simons, Roland ^b   Boyd, Britta ^c   Rafferty, Alannah ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLENSBURG   (Germany)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 39449133004     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6248.2007.00108.x     Document Type: Article

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