The role of family influence in firms' strategic responses to threat of imitation

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 32, Issue 6 SPEC. ISS., 2008, Pages 979-998

  Sirmon, David G ^a   Arregle, Jean Luc ^b   Hitt, Michael A ^a   Webb, Justin W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EDHEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

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EID: 55249121893     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2008.00267.x     Document Type: Article

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