Internationalisation of Spanish family SMEs: an analysis of family involvement

International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 134-151

  Casillas, José C ^a   Acedo, Francisco J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

causal model; entrepreneurship; family firm; internationalisation; partial least squares

Indexed keywords

EID: 73849097273     PISSN: 14793059     EISSN: 14793067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJGSB.2005.008010     Document Type: Article

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