Advancing the field of family business research: Further testing the measurement properties of the F-PEC

Family Business Review

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-88

  Holt, Daniel T ^a   Rutherford, Matthew W ^b   Kuratko, Donald F ^c  

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Familiness; Measurement; Scale development; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649245835     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894486509349943     Document Type: Article

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