Boards of directors in family firms: A generational perspective

Small Business Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 163-180

  Bammens, Yannick ^a   Voordeckers, Wim ^a   Van Gils, Anita ^b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Board composition; Board tasks; Family firms; Generational differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 46349087866     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-007-9087-5     Document Type: Article

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