An overview of the field of family business studies: Current status and directions for the future

Handbook of Research on Family Business

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 25-55

  Sharma, Pramodita ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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